On the 17th of January 2013, i woke up to discover two unexpected gifts.
I didn't see this coming.
I didn't even think Armin Mersmann would have any knowledge of my blog - it's so little - let alone take the time to write me such a thoughtful, honest and above all, supportive message.
I think i forget sometimes that i'm not the only artist in the world.
That sounds incredibly narcissistic but it's the simple fact that i live with myself every day, i'm only capable of knowing how i feel at all times and i'm not one to share.
I'll put it all over the internet, however.
More making of the sense that is not, my speciality.
I regret not talking to my university friends about the feelings of inadequacy that were debilitating me while i was still in education.
They were probably feeling just the same and would not have been able to fix my problems but perhaps then i wouldn't have felt so small and so alone in my situation.
To be a Fine artist in a contemporary art school is not easy, thus why i fled so spectacularly.
This year i'll be receiving my Ordinary Degree, after 4 years of the university kindly holding my space open so i could complete with my Honours.
Which i can do whenever i wish.
Hopefully they'd reaccept me but i'm not entirely sure DOJ is the place for me.
I'm not even sure if art is the right choice for me and until i know that i won't be returning to any institution of art.
It's really rather hard for someone like myself, who's ultimate goal within university was to receive a 1st and couldn't even bring themselves to start their final year.
It's all i wanted but i was a mess and it shouldn't have been what being an artist at art school was about.
I should have just wanted to create, instead i wanted to win.
Unhealthy but understandable.
I still want that 1st, i think i always will but if i go back to complete my degree, i just want to produce something that touches people.
Something i'm proud of.
But not too proud!
So, thank you Mr Mersmann.
I can't tell you how much receiving your message meant to me and how much it's given me to think about.
Happy Birthday for tomorrow and please keep producing your sublime works of art.
They may leave me timid but they are truly wonderful things to behold.
Also, to anyone who is currently at art school or even doing it solo and finds themselves in the same situation as i, message me if you'd like.
I can't fix it but i can empathise.
With bells on.
My other gift of the day was from my Mum.
It's always nice to wake up to a present, especially when you are utterly undeserving because of the ungodly hour you've finally dragged yourself out of bed to attempt functioning like a normal human being.
I won't tell you the hour but it was pretty bad.
The sun was going back down.
Shame, shame on me.
Thanks Mum.
You may be the only one i have but i still kinda think you're the best one.
Feel free to make barfing noises behind your computer screens at my unabashed soppiness!
I care not!
Listening to: Seamonster 'Bed of Roses'
I wish I read more. I'm just too lazy, and very jealous of people who can write. I feel very inferior when I look at your Bookshelf page. You're always saying you're lazy, but I think reading books is one of the least lazy things a person can do. Seriously impressed by you :) I am reading a book at the moment, though. Well, re-reading the last book I read (Heroes & Villains) because I loved it so much. Also, making the slowest progress of any reader ever in trying to get through the Foundation trilogy. I did give up for a while and read some of the I, Robot short stories instead. Much easier :) And nothing like the film.
There was a werewolf movie on tv last night, Cursed, starring Wednesday Addams. I only watched 5 minutes of it (the wrestling scene), but I just thought I'd mention it because it was on your werewolf film list. I wish I'd checked on the your list first. I totally would have watched it.
'Cursed (because it's hilarious).' That's what you wrote :)
I'm way too embarrassed to tell you what I watched last night. I'll give you a clue and say that it featured Val Kilmer.
Talking of Wednesday Addams, she starred in Casper, which I'm pretty sure I saw in the Garrison Theatre years and years ago. I remember I had these glow in the dark stickers of the 3 uncles :) I had to look it up to make sure it starred Bill Pullman, the world's dullest man. It does :) Independence Day was one of the most watched films from my childhood. I didn't even like it that much. It just seemed to be on everywhere, all the time. But Bill Pullman as the Presidant of the United States, just fantastic for all the wrong reasons :)
I have to make a list of all the Bill Pullman films I've seen. I just have to :)
Sleepless In Seattle
Wyatt Earp
While You Were Sleeping
Casper
Independence Day
Lake Placid
The Grudge
Not bad going :)
And there's nothing wrong with enjoying being alone. I won't disappear just because you need a lot of time to yourself, without me. I like you more than ever, even though we don't talk nearly as much now as we used to. You can always talk to me when you're feeling lonely. If it helps. Hug.
Yay, I got an email today telling me that Desire Lines has been dispatched :)
I've had a totally unproductive day, watching rubbish. Here's an advert, only because no one in the world seems to know the name of the song in it. Please don't bother looking, it's impossible to find. And the advert isn't too bad. It's for chocolate and features a woman trying to break the non-blinking world record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDDC-rTaDPA
And this is so not my type of music, but I'm trying to branch out :)
Redial - The Riff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2yboqOMtUA
Actually, I remember a really great dance/electro type song you posted on your blog maybe late last year, and I can't remember what it's called. I'll have to go back and look for it.
It was Vitalic - Second Lives. That was easy :)
Talk to you later, Lillyputty. I hope you're having a good day. Hug.
Hi Lilly
If you and your sisters decide on getting matching tattoos, I wouldn't follow Christiane F's example for DIY tattooing. It looks painful :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WZQDTjLZqQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=23s
And this pretty much sums up how worthless my day has been. Watching a series a adverts from Ameriquest entitled 'don't judge too quickly' in which people doing something entirely innocent end up looking very guilty. Needless to say, I find them hilarious. I'm not sure which is my favourite one. Maybe the kerb crawling dad, or the cat killer. Don't worry, no cats get killed :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdapXryZ98
Text you to say goodnight, Lillyputty.
Hi Lilly
I know I texted you earlier to say that I'd leave you alone today but it really bothers me that you'll wake up and see that I haven't left you a message and think that I don't care about you any more, which would just be so far from the truth. I care about you so much you probably wish I didn't :) I hope you forgive me sending texts full of unjustified self pity. When I woke up this morning and re-read it, I wanted my bed to swallow me up. Not a nice feeling.
I'm going out this morning, from about 11am, for a couple of hours. I'm taking a kid out for a walk. Yep, it's that time again :) I think I'll take him up Staney Hill. Nice and steep. I'm so cruel :) We'll probably be walking up that path/road that I used to sledge down on my amazingly fast red piece of plastic with blue string. I had another red sledge that wasn't so fast. It had a crack in it, so that when I used it for sledging, by the time I got to the bottom of the hill, I was sitting in a big pile of snow that had got in through the gap. No wonder it wasn't so fast :)
Anyway, we'll probably just walk up the path, then walk along the top of the hill, then come down near the start of the Clickimin loch path. I should probably go to Tesco first and buy him a drink. It's probably asking too much of him to climb the hill without refreshments. Or maybe I should just buy myself a drink, and let him watch me while he's dying of thirst. I'm a cruel, cruel person. Obviously, I will not be doing that. Just so you know :)
I was watching The Faculty last night. Another film from my adolescence. I think it was one of those films that I watched with my group of friends when we had that weekly film watching thing going on. I didn't know who Jon Stewart was at the time. I didn't even realise he was in it until I watched it last night. I think the last time anyone ever organised a birthday party for me was when my friends invited themselves over to my house and we played football in Westerloch park and rented Mystery Men. Not the film I would have chosen to watch on my birthday, but I suppose it's the thought that counts. American Psycho was another film that we rented one week. I wonder how we got away with that. None of us could have been anywhere near 18 years old that the time. Another thing I remember doing at one of these weekly get togethers, was calling a phone sex line! Well, I didn't because I was too scared, but one of my friends did. For about 10 seconds. Yes, we lived life on the edge :)
I didn't tell you that when I was at Mareel last weekend, the police were there dealing with someone. I don't know what he was doing exactly, but he was doing it around the corner from where I was standing and I didn't bother looking. I'm like one of those guards in London when told to stand somewhere. I don't move from that spot :) And something slightly disturbing. Apparently, the girl I sat next to in 2nd year French in high school was caught in the disabled toilets with 2 men. Yes, she was getting Eiffel-towered! WTF!
And on that high note, I'm going to get ready to go out. And when I say I'm going to leave you alone today, I'm not really going to leave you alone. What I mean is, you can leave me alone if you like. Forget about me and have a superawesome day, Lillyputty. I'll be okay. That's right, I said superawesome :) I don't know if you'll still accept hugs from me after my text last night, but just in case: HUG!!!!!!! (please don't tell your sister)
Hi Lilly.
I decided not to walk up Staney Hill with a reluctant child in tow today. Instead, we took the car to Scalloway and had a wander around the town. It wasn't very exciting, but nice. I hadn't been there in a long time, maybe 10 years! I used to sort of pass by in the car from time to time when I was learning to drive, but that doesn't really count as a visit since I never stopped and got out, and never even drove into the town at all really, just the outskirts.
Anyway, we went to Scalloway castle this morning. It's not exactly the most impressive castle in the world, but at least it was something to do. I wonder why I think I went there a lot when I was younger. It's not really the kind of place that warrants more than 1 visit every 10 years. Afterwards, we had a wander down to the high street. At least, I think it was the high street. It had a couple of shops. And the Scalloway Hotel. And it is called Main St., according to google maps. Oh, I just remembered, I have been to Scalloway much more recently. I went to Scalloway Hotel for a meal with the folk from the school when I left my job. That was only a year ago. My memory :)
Scalloway's quite a nice town on a quiet Sunday morning in fine weather. It has a few nice little gardens and benches where you can sit. I could have enjoyed it a little bit more if I'd been on my own :) We also went to the beach. Well, it's called a beach on the sign post. Does a beach have to have sand? Is that a necessity? Because, if it is, then this place doesn't qualify.
Beach - definition: a pebbly or sandy shore, esp. by the sea between high- and low-water marks.
Well, it certainly was pebbly :) Maybe it was a beach.
So, all in all, an okay kind of morning :) My parents are having a day out too. They've gone to Noss, an small island to the east of Lerwick. It's uninhabited, but is a National Nature Reserve, with a lot of birds during the breeding season. My mum just called. She was very excited to have gotten within touching distance of a puffin and had to tell me immediately :) I've been to Noss on a school trip before. Yay, another island on Shetland that I've actually visited. A rarity :)
That's enough boring Shetland stories. I only tell you these things because I like you very much. You know that :) I really hope you're okay too. You've been very quiet these last couple of days. I know you've probably just been very busy, but you'd tell me if it was something else or if there was something wrong, wouldn't you? I'm sorry if I made you worried when all you probably wanted to do is sleep. Have some more happy vibes and another hug.
One last song. I'm sorry that I've posted links to so many. I'll stop now.
The Gerbils - Crayon Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMMJajnGAXg
Hi Lilly.
June 3rd 2013. Camera Obscura. Desire Lines :)
I was just thinking of random childhood games I used to play :)
We used to play 'heads down, thumbs up' in primary school. Most of the children in the class put their heads down and thumbs up, while a handful of children go around the room pressing down thumbs. At the end, you have to guess who pressed your thumb down. Sometimes the person sitting next to or opposite you when you had your eyes closed would be very mean and press your thumb down, so that when it came to the time to guess, you'd end up looking like a fool because no one would admit to it :) Sometimes the teacher would spot someone doing a bit of unsanctioned thumb pressing and you'd feel your thumb being pressed down and a second later your thumb being pulled back up :) I looked the game up on wikipedia. It seems to be quite common in primary schools so maybe you've played it. It's also called Seven Up because there's supposed to be seven pupils selected to do the thumb pressing, although I don't remember that part.
Another game I used to play a lot with the children my mum looked after was the memory game. It was just a bunch of cards that you would place face down and try to find the identical pairs. They were also good for Snap, that game where you shout 'Snap' and slam your hand down on a pile of cards whenever you see two identical cards. Did I just explain Snap to you? :) I'm sure you know all these games and don't need my confusing explanations to tell you what they're about :) But that's the thing with childhood games. You think everyone in the world plays them, and everyone does, but sometimes they're called something different or have slight variations.
I had a lot of dinosaur toys when I was a kid. I also had this mat that was designed to look like the kind the of place that dinosaurs would roam and I would spread that out on the playroom floor and arrange my dinosaurs very carefully on it :) And best of all, I had a large volcano that had a button on top and when you pressed it, the volcano would emit this sound. I can't explain it very well. It sounded like a pterodactyl death scream after being caught in an volcanic explosion :)
You can imagine how excited I was when Jurassic Park first came out :) I had the book of the film. And no, I don't mean the novel by Michael Crichton. It was more like a very pared down description of the film with a lot of photos. It was awesome :) I had that before I saw the film. I used to like to go into the trees at the back of my house, with my white plastic stick, and pretend I was hunting velociraptors with that super cool gun that guy had in the film. Fortunately, we didn't suffer the same fate. "Clever girl" :) One of my favourite movie moments ever. I love how they recreated it in Spaced.
I've told you that I had dinosaur top trumps. I never played them, though. They were for educational purposes only i.e. sorting them out into Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous periods. Most of the popular ones seemed to be in the Creacious period, the period of the Great Tyrannosaurus Rex-Triceratops War. Well, that's what happened according to me. Sod facts :) I think most of the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park were from the Cretaceous period. Cretaceous Park doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I remember Dilophosaurus (the one that spits venom) was around very early on, either Triassic or early Jurassic.
I'm glad you don't seem to read these comments much any more. They really are fucking boring :) I just keep writing them because...well, y'know. Hug.
Hi Lillyputty
Hopefully this puts your mind at ease over that Charles Keeping illustration.
http://mashadutoit.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/the-god-beneath-the-sea/
Hi Lilly.
Desire Lines didn't come with the post yesterday. I told you I hate my postman :) Postwoman, actually. Not that it matters in Shetland. They're all just posties :) That's something I remember from my days growing up in Westerloch, the children my mum looked after getting very excited when they saw the postie :) Not quite as excited as they got when the helicopter would fly overhead. "Look, it's Oscar Charlie" followed by a lot of waving :) I think I've told you that my next door neighbour used to be the pilot. I don't know if I've flown in a helicopter before. That sounds like an odd thing to say. You'd think that someone could remember something like that :) I may have flown in one when I was very young, on a school trip to Sumburgh, where the airport and helicopter hanger are located, but I can't say for sure. This is going to bother me all day now :)
The last time I went on a plane must have been about 10 years ago. I'm not sure if I have a fear of flying or if I'm just too lazy to go anywhere these days :) Well, to be honest, I think I do have a fear now. I don't know how I'm ever going to get to see Kyoto. A train journey across Europe and Asia, and then a boat. Hmm, I wonder how long that would take. Still, according to Jules Verne, you can get around the world in 80 days without flying. No wonder I like that book so much. No planes :)
I didn't tell you that it rained in Shetland yesterday for the first time in what seemed like a couple of weeks. I was so glad. Continuous fine weather gets me down. I like water. I'll be happy if it rains for a few days, and then we get another week of sun. The first 2 or 3 sunny days after a few days of rain are my favourite kind of day :) Hmm, I wish I was Storm from the X-Men.
I was talking about dinosaur top trumps yesterday and how I never used them for what they were intended for, playing top trumps. If I was going to play top trumps, this is the set I would use. I can't tell you how happy it made me to find this page on the internet :)
Top Trumps - Alien Space Warriors
http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/blog/index.php/2010/07/28/aliens-and-space-warriors-top-trumps/
Look how hilariously crap Pet Smet was :) I have to buy another set of these. I just have to. Please Lilliputty, don't think too badly of me because I really want to play Alien Space Warriors Top Trumps with you. I'm way too retro for my own good. We'll just end up watching 80s/90s movies, playing the Sega Mega Drive & Nintendo, and playing this awesome card game. I'm sorry if it doesn't sound like much of a life we'll live together. I'm sure there will be other stuff too. Tea, books, sleeping, all the millions of things I see that you want on your intenet pages :) I'd love to buy an empty house and just let you decorate it in any way you wanted to. Looking at your Pinterest page, you'd turn it into something fantastic.
I've noticed that you haven't been listening to music so much recently on your last.fm page. I'm guessing you're all spotified out and that you're on soundcloud, or bandcamp, or good old cds :) Not that it matters to me, it's just something I noticed. I mean, it does matter to me, but only because I worry about you. Go on, tell me I'm being silly. You know you want to :)
Desire Lines not arriving yesterday turned out to be a good thing because it made me finally listen to the 2 Allo Darlin' albums I bought last week. I'm so glad I did. I'm totally crushing on the song Northern Lights at the moment :)
I was looking at some of your sister's pages the other day and on her Flickr page she has these photos of an underwater window display from June last year. It looks so pretty. Like 'how can anyone make something so pretty' kind of pretty :) I can't believe it was all handmade by your family. You guys are so damned talented!
Hi Lilliputty
Desire Lines came today :) I'm not sure what I think about it as a whole. It sometimes takes a while for an album to grow on me. But I'm already in love with the first song, This Is Love (Feels Alright). So frickin' lovely.
I don't really know what you do with yourself these days, but I hope you do things that make you happy. Hug.
I don't know how but i never seem to have enough time or privacy to reply to your messages. Makes no sense, right? What with me having all the time in the world. I dunno. I'd bad with my time. I am trying to be on the internet less though. I was feeling somewhat like an addict and i don't enjoy that feeling. Plus it makes my hands hurt. RSI and all that painful rubbish.
You must feel very neglected. I'm sorry. I do still read everything you write to me. It's what i do post-shower. So it's not total neglect...Ugh. I'm like one of those bad pet owners. Sorry dear. I'll give Desire Lines a listen to make it up to you.
Ps. God Beneath the Sea! Thanks buddy. Why are you so much better at finding this stuff out than me?
I was wondering if you were cutting down on your internet time.
Please don't feel bad about not talking to me. I just miss you a lot is all.
You're very sweet, Lilly. Do you know that? :) Please don't listen to Desire Lines just for me.
Hi Lilly.
It was Tuesday yesterday. You may have noticed :) I forgot to tell you the films for next week at Mareel.
Populaire
The Hangover Part III
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
Spring Breakers
Epic 3D
Epic 2D
Olympus Has Fallen
The Gatekeepers
Hi Lilly.
I was thinking about something I used to like going to when I was growing up. Coffee mornings / jumble sales at Sound Primary School. I used to go to those when I was a pupil at Sound. I used to help out to. I think it was the done thing when you were a P7. My memory is a bit hazy, but I remember those mornings being awesome :) They seemed to take over the whole school. You see, the school didn't have much of a hall, so it was more like a load of stalls set up all around the school. Obviously, the things I spent most my time looking for was were Transformers toys and annuals :) I was so happy to find a Headmaster still with its head. Headmasters, Transformers with heads that come off and transform into little men in robot suits. Geek! :) But at jumble sales, they were almost always missing their heads. The one I bought was called Mindwipe or Mindswipe (it doesn't really matter), and it transformed into a bat. It also appeared in the cartoon series which made it doubly awesome own :) I don't have it any more.
And I also bought annuals too. I may still have those in my room somewhere, hidden at the back of a drawer or cupboard. Geek porn :) I can only remember one story. I can't believe someone wrote down the synopsis in wikipedia :)
'Marvel Transformers U.K. Annual 1985 contained a story called Plague of the Insecticons. Optimus Prime lead Prowl and Warpath to a meeting with President Ronald Reagan in Washington D.C. to open a dialog between the Autobots and the U.S. government. However Soundwave had intercepted word of the talks and informed Megatron, who decided send the Ravage and the Insecticons. The Insecticons did not attack the Autobots, but instead attacked the U.S. military in the name of the Autobots. Prowl was badly damaged by one of Shrapnel's grenades during the battle. Although the Autobots managed to chase off the Insecticons Optimus Prime gave up on explaining the misunderstanding to Reagan, thinking he would never be believed. Reagan had been ready to hear what Optimus had to say and was disappointed they gave up so easily.'
That's right, I just copy and pasted a synopsis of a story from a Transformers annual that I found on wikipedia. I've reached a new low :)
The Shrapnel Grenade! Definitely the best part. And if you think a comic book interpretation of Reagan sounds bad, you should see Hitler in the Captain America comics from the 1960s. Hilarious.
Me and my Marvel Essentials :)
I cringe at the geekiness of my last comment.
I must have something more worthwhile to say for myself. One sad thing that happened the other week was my uncle in Norway passing away. To be honest, I hardly knew him & I hadn't seen him in years. We didn't visit him the last time we went to Norway in 2004, so it must have been the time before, and I can't remember when that was. A long time ago. My favourite memory of him was the time he took me, my brother and my dad sea fishing on his boat. That's the first and only time I've been sea fishing. It was pretty much putting a line with a hook and some bait in the water and waiting for a bite, not the most sophicated way of fishing :) But it worked. We caught a ton of fish. Cod, I think. And we had them for dinner. I'm a hunter :)
I've been loch fishing a few times. I even own a rod. I can't remember who gave it to me. It's for spin fishing. At least, I think that's what it's called. You cast the line far into the loch then reel it in and hope you get a bite. But I haven't been fishing in a long time. Probably not since that Swedish dentist moved away. I don't think I've ever been fishing with anyone who wasn't Scandinavian :) I can't fish on my own. I always needed someone there to kill the things I caught.
Moving quickly on, I had a blueberry muffin for breakfast. There, that's a much nicer thing to talk about eating :) I'm hungry now. I think I'm gonna have some lunch before I go to Psych.
You have a lovely day, okay :)
P.S. I like that we're both reading Angela Carter books at the moment :)
Lilliputty :)
I'm listening to this right now. I know I said wouldn't post any more songs, but I posted this one before, so it doesn't really count :) It's only my favourite Allo Darlin' song. It's so, so good and my heart really is as strong as a drummer :) I'm so cheesy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57eii7Bdf3g
Adore you buddy. Hug.
That teddy video sounds like it's being narrated by Vincent Price :)
Hi Lilly.
Would you like to know an embarrassing secret? Not too embarrassing, otherwise I wouldn't write it here and just send you a text, or not tell you at all :) I used to go to a comedy improv group every Saturday for a few months when I was in Edinburgh, in late 2007 and early 2008. I was terrible at it, but the people were nice. I never made any friends, though. I don't think I even saw any of them outside of the Bedlam Theatre. Still, it was nice to have a bit of normal human contact for a few hours a week, considering that my best relationship with anyone in Edinburgh from 2005-2008 was with the staff at the Starbucks on Princes Street. I was way too self-conscious to ever be much use at improv. I kept thinking I'd get better, but I didn't. Despite my general awfulness, I must have liked going. For some reason, I used to really look forward to 12pm on Saturdays :) I'd go to the public library in the morning, spend a little while looking at the books, then walk over the theatre which was really close by. It doesn't sound like much of weekend, does it? :) I was just making the best of a bad situation. I did go back once, when I passed by Edinburgh on my way to or from West Kirby, but the group wasn't on. I was so disappointed. I sound like I really miss some things about Edinburgh :) I suppose I do, even though I wasn't happy for long time while I was living there. I think I could have been if I'd tried harder or if I was in a different situation. I'm talking about nothing now. I'd better stop :)
More tales of Edinburgh :)
This is somewhere I went a few times with my dad when he came to visit. McNaughtan's Bookshop, a second hand bookshop down Leith Walk, so a bit out of my way. It's quite mazy.
http://www.mcnaughtansbookshop.com/
I think I bought a few chess books from there. That's something I used to do. Recreating famous chess games on my chess board in the flat. Ugh, the word 'loser' is far too small in this case. I deserve to be called something much worse.
There was also Blackwell's Bookshop, which I think was the university bookshop. Well, they sold a load of academic books. I also remember a place called Word Power Books. I think that was the place I bought this awesome book on rare films. Some of them sounded amazing. I think I left it in Edinburgh with a lot other stuff :(
Some of the places I went in Edinburgh have closed down. I don't know why, but it always makes me a little sad. There was a chocolate cafe on the Royal Mile. I'd read about it in my Lonely Planet guide to the city (sadly, out of print), useful for exploring :) They don't make a Lonely Planet city guide to Edinburgh any more, just one of those smaller Encounters guides. I wonder if I was the only person living in Edinburgh for 4 years who needed a LP guide to find their way around :) Anyway, I went to the chocolate cafe with my cousin. She had just arrived from the Philippines (I had to meet her at the airport) and was on her way to Shetland. But we had a day in Edinburgh together and that was nice. At night, we had pizza and watched Battle Royale. I've told you she looks so like Mitsuko, it creeps me out a little bit. She didn't see the similarity :) We were both at kind of the same place in our lives at the time and we spent the entire boat journey up to Shetland talking about how unhappy we were. Fun trip :) Now she's married, has a full-time job she likes and has just bought a house!
And do you know what I used to carry around with me in Edinburgh? Antibacterial hand sanitzer. I'm awesome :)
My first piano book. I am very happy to see they still sell it on amazon. Those characters on the front cover were a great help :)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Thompsons-Easiest-Piano-Course/dp/0711954305#_
On the back page there's a certificate of merit. The one in my book is signed by my piano teacher and dated August 1995. That's a long time ago :)
Text you to say goodnight, Lilliputty.
Hi Lilliputty :)
I'm in the mood for a Camera Obscura weekend.
Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Underachievers, Please Try Harder
Let's Get Out Of This Country
My Maudlin Career
Desire Lines
Sorry, I just like that I own all 5 albums :) The parents are away, so it is the perfect opportunity to play loud music and dance around the house. I'm not saying that's what I'll be doing, but you can imagine it if you want to :) I'm hoping that some more songs from Desire Lines suddenly hit me and make me fall in love with them. It can happen at the most unexpected moments :) And I really do play loud music when I'm on my own. I remember last summer, to cheer myself up, I had Message In Rouge from Kiki's Delivery Service playing really loudly on repeat while I cooked pancakes. Yes, this is what I do when left to my own devices :) But it is my happy song.
I one of my first comments, I said that 'Age of Consent' was my favourite song and 'Midnight Run' was my favourite film. To be honest, I'm not sure how true either of those statements are. I'm very fickle :) But Midnight Run is a perfect film. I love everything about it. There are just so many little things in it that make me smile. I'm ashamed to say that I can quote just about every line of dialogue from it.
"His real name's Mosley."
"I'M MOSLEY!"
"So here come 2 words for you. Shudda fuckup."
:)
Would you like to know some more unbelievably uninteresting things about me? Of course you would :)
I used to be a total shower monster, through high school and during my time in Edinburgh. No wonder my flatmates hated me :) I used to spend so long in there that it ended up affecting me adversely. I think it fucked with my body temperature. I used to get these itching fits like I was too hot or something. It was embarrassing. I was in a restaurant with my parents, the Dragon's Way in Edinburgh, and I had to go outside because I started feeling all hot and itchy! That used to happen to me a lot. Aren't you glad I tell you these things? :) I'm much better now, though. 10 minute showers every day and I don't have these temperature problems. I almost had a very serious accident in the shower in the flat in Edinburgh. The shower was in the bathtub and I slipped. Like a cartoon character :) I was standing upright and a second later I was lying on my back. I wasn't hurt at all. I just lay there for ten minutes being rained on by warm water. It was a very odd feeling :)
I liked my room in the halls of residence at the university. It had a nice shower :) I much preferred staying there than I did in a flat. It was just a bed, a table, a cupboard and a nice bathroom, but it seemed to be all I needed at the time. I guess I liked it because no one ever bothered me when I was in there. All my Shetland friends were staying in different buildings and I never talked to my 'neighbours'.
And it had a lock :) I just spent my time in there watching Frasier on my laptop, listening to music, and eating chocolate hobnobs and kinder buenos. Loser :)
Great! Now I have to send your birthday presents to you in a crate with a crowbar or you'll be disappointed. I think I'd like a retro gamer themed birthday party.
I remember the first time I heard 'Age Of Consent'. Wayne's World 2 :) I found out years later that it was an instrumental cover version. I think it's a song that's almost impossible to fuck up. That's my opinion after listening to covers of it all afternoon. This is how I spend my time :)
Geographer - Age Of Consent (New Order Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0tIMy0rIYM
I like how your time is spent.
If i could send you the gamer crate i would but alas, they do not deliver overseas.
I do have one part of your present already :) And it's real good. I kinda want to keep it for myself!
Parents just took us to see Star Trek again! Buahaha. Love my folks. My mum's as big, probably bigger, nerd as my sisters and i put together. So's my dad but in a different way. He's got a sponge for a brain. Retains everything. It's very annoying, when my brain retains nothing.
Hope your day's been as fun as mine. If not, then i wish you a happy saturday!
Talk later buddy, i'm off to get fed. Hungry Lilly.
I promise not to interrogate you about any presents you buy me for our birthday. Besides, you'd better not tell me in case you do decide to keep anything for yourself :)
Today has not exactly been fun (Psych), but it's not been bad. The office has been a little bit soap opera-ish these last couple of days. I can't believe I live on the same island as some of these people. I'd much rather have been watching Star Trek. It seems grossly unfair that you have seen it twice and I haven't seen it at all. I just noticed your evil laugh :) Buhahah, indeed.
Dads! I'm very jealous of people with sponge-like brains :) And doesn't your dad have an awesome music collection too? Doubly jealous :) My dad and uncle always put me to shame when we did crosswords at Christmas in West Kirby, they are so much more knowledgable and well read than me. My parents always joke that I only got their worst traits, multiplied by a million. They sometimes call me Taosi, after my cousin's dog because we're so similar. Spoilt brats, the pair of us. And we growl when people come near us :) Funny thing is, my cousin's dog hates me.
You're having your tea 3 hours later than me. Totally worth pointing that out :)
P.S. - I know you'd send me a gamer crate if you could because you're awesome :) If I wasn't so lazy, I'd make you up your own retro gamer crate. I'd put in a Nintendo or Mega Drive instead. And probably keep it for myself. Buahahahah!
Or make 2 retro gamer crates :)
P.P.S. - You have a happy Saturday too, Lilliputty :)
By the way, I'm just about to take a quick shower. You so wanted to know that, didn't you? :)
If you're not in the mood to talk later, I'll text you to say goodnight.
I wish you were coming over for a sleepover this weekend. I need to grow up, I know :)
Sorry for posting another comment, but I didn't say earlier that it gave me a warm feeling inside to know that you've been thinking about our birthday and that you've even bought a part(!) of my present. You're not neglecting me at all :)
I'm not going to buy much for myself between now and then. A few cds and a few dvds, maybe. That's normal for me. I never buy much for myself. And I just know that I'll love whatever you give me.
I wish I'd owned more lego when I was a kid. I was so into it :) Space lego, knights lego, pirates lego. The pirates lego was the big one for me, surprisingly. Looking at me now, you'd have thought I'd been way more into space and castles :) Actually, it wasn't so much the pirates I liked, but the navy they were always fighting. According to wikipedia, they were called Governor Broadside's blue-coated troops or 'Imperial Soldiers', but I'm pretty sure I always referred to them as the navy because they wore blue.
I've been reading all about them on wikipedia this morning :)
'Alongside the Pirates released for 1989 were Governor Broadside's blue-coated troops who were to fight the Pirates. These forces were based upon the French navy and marines of the colonial era, being known as "Imperial Soldiers" by fans...from 1992-93, the Governors were gradually replaced by the red-coated Imperial Guards...'
I totally remember that, the blue-coated Imperial Soldiers being replaced by red-coated Imperial Guards. It made me sad. I much preferred blue :) I'd be looking through the catalogues and wondering why I couldn't find them any more. Ruined my childhood. Perhaps that's a slight exaggeration :) I supposed it would be unforgivably geeky to hunt down old Imperial Soldiers lego sets. There's only 6, Lilly! 6! I suppose there's no harm in looking :)
Nah, I've moved on :) I think I'd much prefer something else. But lego was a fantastic thing to grow up with. I had a lego castle once upon a time. That was pretty awesome. I liked building it, but I always struggled with the more fiddly bits. The drawbridge on the castle, or the sails on the pirate boats. I was so useless. I needed help all the time :)
So, you want to turn into a tree. Noted. But I'd still be sad.
I have a lot of old video tapes on top of my piano. Most of them are not mine. That's the sucky thing about being away for 4 years, my room turned into a place for the rest of my family to store things they don't want any more. I'm embarrassed, but slightly proud, of all of this.
Superman I-IV
The Real Ghostbusters
Babylon 5
Thundercats
Mighty Max
The Magic Roundabout
Abba: Live In Concert
Aliens
Beatrix Potter
The Little Mermaid
Shania Twain: Live
Moldiver (anime)
Blackadder Goes Forth
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Doctor Who: The Daleks
Alien
El Hazard
Rayearth (more anime)
Batman
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Cocoon: The Return
Shania Twain: The Platinum Collection
Abba: Forever Gold
Laurel & Hardy
Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill, Live
Seven Samurai
Sailor Moon (even more anime)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Wimbledon: A History Of The Championships
Wimbledon 1988
Grand Master Tennis
Angel Cop (yep, another anime)
From a quick scan through that list, I'd say only 9 of them were originally mine. I'm never going to tell you which ones :)
Have a really good Saturday, Lilliputty :)
I like how you give me so much, and I repay you with things like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lo7JPLJUUU
It's all part of my plan to get you to watch the entire Transformers Movie (1986) without you even realising it :)
I do love so many things about this clip, though.
1. The eerie music
2. Planet eating
3. This version of the Transformers
theme tune
4. The ridiculous cast list (Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle, Orson Welles)
5. The narration. "It is the year 2005." WTF!
I'm sorry for being such a loser.
I really like Wild Belle's 'Love Like This'. Thanks, Lilliputty :)
At the very, very beginning I thought it was going to be the Netflix song :) They were kind of similar for about a second. Of course, I knew it wasn't because you'd already posted that before, you awesome person. I love that song.
"Ooh, how I want ya. Ooh, how I need ya, darling."
Lara Wilson can totally get away with singing that one line over and over again :)
I was also listening to Girls Like Me by TV Girl. I used to listen to that so much, but I'd forgotten about it for a little while. You've given me so many of my favourite songs :)
I'm ashamed to say that I spent an unhealthy amount of time today watching playthroughs of Sonic & Sonic 2 for the Mega Drive on Youtube, while listening to Desire Lines. Okay, secretly I think I'm super cool for doing that. Or not so secretly, since I'm telling you all about it :)
P.S. - The thought of you in a baby T-Rex costume scares me a little bit :) You'd be taking massive bites out of me! Well, if you thought I deserved to be bitten. Probably not, what with me being a deviant and all :) Also, a baby T-Rex looks a bit like a fat velociraptor. I've been looking at that picture for too long :)
Pretending that candy sticks were cigarettes. Y'know, those little white candy sticks in the match boxes with the cards.
That's what I did when I was a kid :)
Text you to say goodnight, Lilliputty.
Hi Lilly.
Would you like to know some more fascinating facts about me? Silly question :)
I could tell you some more about my bodily features! Obviously, nothing too unpleasant or embarrassing :) Fingernails are a safe area. I don't like to cut them too short. I hate the feeling of when they are cut too short. Have you ever touched velvet with really short nails? It's horrible. I can't stand it! Toenails too. Really short toenails inside my socks. Cringe! So yeah, I'm a fucked up weirdo in so many delightful ways :)
I also have crackly knees! Whenever I bend my knees, they make a cracking sound. People are always asking me if I'm okay :)
But enough about my odd little body :) What else can I tell you about? Hmm. I own a bicycle. A bicycle that I never ride. It's in the garage. I haven't even owned it that long. I'd say about 18 months. I bought it from a girl who worked at Shetland Arts because she was moving away and wanted to get rid of it. I can't say it was my best purchase ever :) I think I bought it because I was working on Bressay at the time and I thought it would be useful for getting to and from the school. It didn't work out like that. I always knew it wouldn't. I have very weak legs, totally unsuitable for cycling. I used it once to get to the nursery to feed the fish. It took me 5 minutes longer than the time it usually takes me to walk there. And I had to go at 6am because I was too scared of cycling in traffic. And I couldn't adjust the seat so it was at the wrong height all the time and my feet could barely touch the ground. I fell over about 3 times trying to dismount. The only bit I was good at was freewheeling downhill. Lerwick has too many uphill bits. That is my conclusion from the whole sordid affair.
I don't know why I have such weak legs. I walk everywhere. Or why riding that bicycle made me feel so knackered. I used to have a bicycle when I was a kid. I was an awesome on it :) I think it was orange and yellow. Do you remember those stickers you used to get in cereal boxes? I used to stick those on it. And as if I couldn't be any cooler, I still have some of those stickers on my bedroom door.
Pow
Splat
Crash
Shocking
These words all adorn my door. From the outside. Right next to the 'keep your distance' sign :) I used to get some awesome stuff out of cereal boxes. Monsters In My Pocket! I haven't thought about those in ages. I know it's hard to tell, but I've just gotten a little bit excited :)
Do you know what I used to take on holiday with me? Of course you don't, but I'm about to tell you :)Film guides! My Halliwell's Film Guide, and other ones too. So much for light travelling. I told you I used to be a total film buff. I'd never do that these days. I don't like carrying anything :) What else did I take? Haribo! I took Haribo Starmix to the Philippines. I know I did because one day I left a packet open and I came back to discover it was full of ants! Sadly, the weren't all marching in a line, carrying off individual sweets like they do in cartoons :)
Talk to you later, Lilliputty. Have a lovely Sunday.
Girl scouts! Buy their cookies, or else...
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw8ga9zMTV1qi88pko1_500.jpg
And you can't hug every cat pokemon :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HtoKAzee3Q
Iain Banks came up to Shetland in 2007 for the Wordplay festival. I know it's silly to mention because it doesn't mean anything to you, but it's nice for me to think that the author of a couple of your favourite books came to visit my hometown.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shetlandarts/3575066573/in/photostream/
It's not the best photo in the world, but it's the only one I could find of him in Shetland. Coincidentally, the old woman in the next photo is our next door neighbour in Sandness. She wrote a book called 'Like A Mantle, The Sea' about her time as a school teacher on the island of Papa Stour. Her husband died a few years ago, so my mum and dad keep her company for a few hours every weekend they are in Sandness, making her tea and listening to her stories. That's what they were doing yesterday evening.
I found this on Amazon. That Funfax (that's what they were called) Spy File Organiser I told you about a little while ago. Y'know, the one I got from the school book club.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Funfax-Spy-File-Organiser/dp/1855973049
It made me happy :)
And talking of happy, this is quite possibly my favourite Family Guy moment ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMDQXb1WR-k
Text you to say goodnight, Lilliputty.
P.S. - I'm so jealous of you and your banana bread :)
Hi Lilly.
I'm at Psych this morning, then probably Mareel this afternoon. My exciting life :)
Have I ever told you what I did at university? Maths. I did very badly. Also, European History & Astronomy. My dad gave me his old copy of this amazing book on The Thirty Years War to help with a European History essay in 1st year. It was called The Thirty Years War (good title) and was written by Cicely Veronica Wedgwood in 1938 when she was 28. Seriously, one of the best things I have ever read. Not that it helped me much with my essay.
More randomness :)
I can't remember the last time I bought clothes for myself. I'm really unfashionable, me and all my old clothes that still fit :) It sounds really silly, but the idea of buying clothes seems really daunting. I don't like thinking about it :) Occasionally, someone will give me clothes as a gift i.e. my mum or my cousin. I think the last thing I was given was a light jacket for the summer. I haven't worn it yet. I'm still wearing my big old oversized waterproof winter jacket. I look ridiculous. I do a stupid thing with it too, because I don't have gloves. I walk around with my hands inside the sleeves, so it looks like someone has cut them off :)
I do try not to look like too much of a loser. It's just that most of my clothes are pretty plain and boring. I've probably had some of the clothes since I was in primary school! Like that super cool handpainted t-shirt that my brother made. Now that's not boring :) No offence to him, but I think it was sheer luck that it turned out so awesome. Or maybe he's super artistic and I just haven't noticed. I think he made it when he was in primary school, at one of those activity clubs that used to be on over the summer holidays.
I'd say that I need someone to take me shopping and dress me up, but I don't think I do. I once went shopping with a girl in Edinburgh so she could advise me what to buy, and everything she suggested I thought would make me look like a douchebag. A lot of girls seem to like guys looking like douchebags, but it's not for me. Even my cousin, the last time I was in Aberdeen, I thought her ideas about what I should be wearing were way off the mark. Plus, I'm a stingy fucker when it comes to parting with money :) Well, when it comes to me. I show a tiny bit of generosity when buying for other people :)
But maybe I should listen to other people about clothes. They'd struggle to make me look worse than I already do. I'd still look like me, though :(
It actually makes me a little bit sad when my family buy me gifts, because it's almost always something I don't want, ungrateful little git that I am :) It makes me think that they don't really know me all that well. Then again, I never tell them what I want. My parents have a way of mocking everything that I like and I can really do without that. Better not to say anything. I make it sound likes there's a lot of passive aggressive behaviour going on in our house :)
I did odd things to vent my frustration when I was growing up. We used to have this vegetable patch (well, a patch of earth, it didn't have any vegetables) just outside the back door. It's covered in grass now, but I used to spend a lot of time when I was I kid trying to dig a big hole in it. I think I was trying to make a tunnel so I could escape. That would have been awesome, to have an escape tunnel to a secret underground lair. I never did get very far. Damn rocks :) I could do with an activity like that these days.
The Beauty Inside trailer featuring Let's Fall Asleep Together by Teen Daze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZexxFi9GTk
Lilliputty :)
I found this in the wardrobe in my bedroom today.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95083192@N03/9011079748/
Text you to say goodnight. Nudge.
Hi Lilly
I had a nice afternoon yesterday. I went to Mareel. I can't explain why it was nice. It just was :) I did have a hot chocolate and a chilli chocolate brownie.
I could tell you some more stories from my childhood if you like :) Something involving my bicycle. I remember falling asleep in summer and waking up at 8pm and thinking it was 8am because it was so light outside. I was very worried because I thought it was the morning and my parents hadn't come home, so I got on my bike and rode to the Methodist church in the middle of town where they were at some sort of party. It wasn't until I got inside and found them that I realised it was still the evening. I must have been about 12 or 13 at the time. Do you want to know the most embarrassing part of the story? I had fallen asleep watching the film 'Liar, Liar' :)
I'm not working today. I'm just at home doing nothing in particular. Still trying to get into Desire Lines. That first song, though :) I thought that View-Master was a pretty good find yesterday :) I also found about 20 reels that go with it. They were in a bag with my old Warhammer toys. One of my fondest memories of collecting Warhammer is that my hands used to always have bits of dried superglue on them :) You have to use a lot of glue with Warhammer. It truly was a powerful substance. Except for when you really needed it to be :) It was quite common to find me in my room when I was younger, desperately trying to force Warhammer models to stick together :) I sometimes hold them in place for 20 minutes, and I would still fail.
Going to Games Workshop in Liverpool was an interesting experience. The people working there aren't so much shop assistants as military advisors :) They kept telling me all the things I needed for a successful army. I wish I'd managed to make a good army. They looked so amazing in the pictures when they were all painted. I didn't paint mine. I probably didn't have enough money to make my models look good. Everything was so expensive. Warhammer was a pretty expensive hobby for a kid :)
I wish I still had my old Sega Mega Drive 2 and that you were here to play it with me. 'Streets of Rage' is such an awesome 2-player game :) I like how you could call on a police car when you were in trouble and it would appear and shoot a rocket launcher or a mini-gun, and kill all the bad guys. A bit weird how it would appear on the boat level, driving along the deck. Also, one of the good guys wore blue jeans and a white vest. Retro cool :)
I've been thinking about some of the presents I've been given over the years. Hanging on the wall with some pots and pans in the kitchen, there's something I got when I was 5 years old from my uncle. A monkey on a perch :) It's battery powered and when you switch it on it swings around and around. It hasn't had any batteries for a long time. Also, on top of the wardrobe in my bedroom is a globe/lamp. I really should get that down again. It looked nice when it was switched on.
I've got rid of most of my old toys, though. Pity. I've been looking at this site today, trying to remember what Mighty Max toys I had.
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mightymax.html
The larger playsets were some of my favourite things:
Skull Mountain
Dragon Island
And quite possibly the best of the lot:
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_magnus_1_crop.jpg
http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mightymax/mm_magnus_2_crop.jpg
Yay! :)
Hehe, definitely one of Frasier's finest moments. "I'm God and he knows it!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjbyL3H01Pw&feature=player_detailpage#t=533s
Also, words for today. Neophyte & soporific.
Finally, here's Stephen Fry talking about one of my favourite films, Gaslight. Anton Walbrook as man trying to drive his wife insane. Evil personified.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_U73KVjN0E
I hope you've had a good day, Lilliputty. Nudge.
I have to share this information with you before going to bed :)
My dad had a meeting of his philosophy group in the house today. Someone brought Choco Leibniz biscuits. They were named after the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Things like this make me happy :)
Also, I want a Mozartkugel :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozartkugel
I'll send you a goodnight text.
Hi Lilliputty.
It's raining today. I'm glad :) Even though I may have to walk to work at 1pm. I might ask if I can take the car. I want to see the water running down the hills at Clickimin Loch, though. It's been too depressing walking around there recently, seeing everything all dried up. The weather has been far too dry for my liking the last few weeks. I'm crazy, but I always imagine the land looking happier and healthier after a good soaking :)
My geeky heart skipped a beat this morning :) I'm on a bit of an old toy kick at the moment and I was thinking about Zoids. I'm not very good at describing these things and wikipedia was not much help. I'll keep it simple :) They are robot dinosaurs. You have to build them. That was easy :) They also had their own storyline, a war between the Blue Zoids & the Red Mutants. The reason my heart skipped a beat is that I found a website that has scanned in all the stories from an old Zoids annual that I used to own. I think I bought it at one of the coffee mornings / jumble sales at Sound School. I told you they were awesome :)
http://www.zoidstar.com/comics.html
I remember it being slightly disturbing. I mean, some of those robot dinosaurs looked really evil and it was pretty violent for a story about kids toys. Actually, I only ever owned one Zoid toy. A robot sabre tooth tiger. It was battery powered. Not that it ever moved very well. More like it had arthritis. Did I mention that Zoids were driven by little silver and gold android men? There's an image in the annual of an android being impaled while another android has been severed at the waist. It sure was violent :)
Having said all that about the rain, I do hope it's sunny again at the weekend. I'm very difficult to please :) It's just that I'm supposed to be taking a kid to the beach on Sunday. I don't know which beach to choose. There are so many. Jealous? :) You do have rivers and trees, though. Lucky girl :) You can't have everything. There are no rivers in Shetland and very few trees as you know. And it's not like I take advantage of what we do have. It has been ages since I've been to a beach. The one in Sandness was probably the last one I visited and that's way too far to drive on Sunday. There's no way I'm driving 30 miles to get to a beach. In Lerwick, there's a place called Sands of Sound. I like that name :) It's near Sound School so I used to go there quite a lot when I was in primary. Field trips and the like. They were fun, collecting sticklebacks from streams on the way there :) I'm distracting myself again! I'd better do some research on Shetland beaches.
Done :)
http://visit.shetland.org/beaches
I'll take you to some of them when you come to visit.
Anyway, if the weather is bad, I said I'd take the kid carpet bowling instead. You can do that at Clickimin. Another thing we used to do in school. Exciting times! I haven’t done it since then. Carpet bowls, the sport of people who don't like sport :) It was the kid's suggestion. Not that I'm complaining. A nice, relaxing way of spending the time is carpet bowls if you don't mind looking decidedly uncool. Which I don't :) And you get to wear special shoes and use the shoe spray :) It doesn't take much to make me happy.
Have a good day, Lilliputty.
Hi Lilly
I forgot to tell you what new films are on at Mareel next week (14th-20th June)
Man of Steel
The Big Wedding
Fast & Furious 6
I'm So Excited! - that's a Spanish film, not how I'm feeling about F&F 6 :)
I could give you an album recommendation if you like, for what my opinion is worth. Yuck's self-titled debut album. I think it's pretty good.
Yuck - Georgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HfHGURWVnU
Yuck - Stutter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLr0JJQX6Ts
Also, my word for the day. Commensurate. Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion.
And a dessert :)
OREO & Fudge Ice Cream Cake. Nom Nom!
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/oreo-fudge-ice-cream-106562.aspx
Not that any of this matters in the slightest.
I'll send you a text a bit later to say goodnight.
You and your sister performing the Troy & Abed handshake. I remember every uber-cool thing you tell me :)
We're trying to perfect our Top Gun Five at the moment.
http://img.pandawhale.com/55098-Top-gun-gif-1RB6.gif
It's the second five that's foiling us.
You're thinking too much. That's my advice. It sounds unlikely, though :)
I think it's just that we're naturally spaztacular and can't manage the most simple of physical tasks.
She takes great joy in the fact that i fell off my chair when in engaged in a Thumb War with her once. It was pretty spectacular of me.
9pm. I've just made tea :) Do you still engage in Thumb Wars?
Silly question. The answer is obvious :)
Uhh, for sure stupid question! We have them during the News. Out parents cast us glances of disapproval.
It isn't our fault we'd rather have wars with our thumbs than listen to real life depressing ones.
I'm having flashbacks of my brother giving me a typewriter. Urban Dictionary describes these things so much better than me.
'The act of pinning someone down, and using the tips of your fingers to type on their upper chest, tickling them tremendously.'
That sounds vicious! Luckily, being a girl, it'd be pretty hard to do that to me. The female sex wins again!
Have you ever had a horse bite? It's horrible and i'm really good at giving them :)
It's basically like an enlarged pinch. Hurts way more than you'd think if performed properly.
Nope. I want one! There are 3 definitions on Urban Dictionary.
'To grab a fleshy part on another's body, particularly on the underside of the upper arm, squeeze tightly, and then pull your fingers loose without loosening one's grip. Creates a bruise identical in appearance to the one produced by the bite of a horse.'
Does that sound about right? The other definitions are to do with knee grabbing and ball biting! I'm guessing it's neither of those, certainly not the last one :)
Talking of sadomasochism, Secretary is on tonight. James Spader spanking Maggie Gyllenhaal.
That is indeed a horse bite. You definitely do not want one.
Secretary and then The Breakfast Club...Ideal movie night! I dare you to watch it again and try and hate it :)
Hot beef injection, the Judd Nelson fist pump, that dance scene...okay, I'll watch it :)
I see myspace has changed. You have a lot of nice photos of yourself. I hope you don't mind that I had a look. I took some photos today. I'll put them on my Flickr page.
Jeez Dex, i'm starting think you're allergic to smiling! I'm gonna start calling you Grumples. Yessiree.
Ended up watching Unforgiven instead of Secretary. We've given up on that now though. It's time to watch Lawless for the 5th time.
How's Maggie doing? Into the real filth yet?
The boy with the face that expresses anything up to two emotions :)
You're so photogenic. I'm kinda jealous.
Enjoy Lawless with the disgustingly handsome Tom Hardy and his cardigan.
Secretary has just started.
"It's spanking season, and I've got a hankering for some spankering." The Simpsons :) It used to be so good.
P.S. I bet you can't wait to see Fast & Furious 6 :)
You bet your ass i can't wait to see F&F6! Car chases, Vin Diesel and Blonde Keanu? What more could you possibly ask for?
I have taken my leave of Mr Hardy and his menacing cardigans. Maggie and James have got my undivided attention for the time being, although i may watch some of the stuff i've been recording throughout the week! Oh the joyous joys of having a recordable dvd player.
You still gonna give The Breakfast Club another crack?
Could I ask what stuff you've been recording? I record Columbo :) My favourite episode was on last weekend. By Dawn's Early Light. Patrick McGoohan being awesome in a military academy.
Fast & Furious 6! Oh Lilly, I'm shaking my head in disappointment right now :) Not really, but how the hell did they get to Number 6? Did you see what I did there? Number 6. Patrick McGoohan. The Prisoner. High five?
And poor Paul Walker, being referred to as the blonde Keanu :)
Is it okay to text you goodnight after I've finished watching The Breakfast Club?
I totally don't see what you did there? Huh?
I recorded that new thing on Channel 4, Dates.
Awkward and The Americans.
There's a ridiculous amount of stuff on my hard drive.
Feel free to text but not with any slander against the Club.
It was nothing very clever. Patrick McGoohan starred as Number 6 in a tv series called The Prisoner about a weird resort for retired spies. That's all :) They did an American remake not that long ago with Ian McKellen, Jim Caviezel & Hayley Atwell.
I promise not to slander the Club. I'm not even sure if I want to now :)
P.S. Enjoy your shows. I'm sure you'll tell me or post on your blog what you think of them.
I thought maybe we could have a couple of quiet days between us this weekend to do our own thing. Please promise you'll text or leave a message here if you're feeling lonely or just want to talk. I won't disappear. You're my buddy. Hug.
Sure thing mateface. Talk to you some time next week. Be nice to your Dad tomorrow.
My mum got the manager's job at the new nursery :)
Also, I watched Skeletons on Saturday night. Loved it!
Are we still exchanging birthday presents?
Dexterous' Mum, Manager of Adolescents Extraordinaire!
Glad for her, bud :)
Birthday present exchange is still on methinks. Unless you don't want awesome things?
Told you Skeletons was great. Did you enjoy the sight of Jason Isaacs all tweeded up as much as i did?
I do want awesome things! I'm glad it's still on :)
I did enjoy the tweed. And the moustache. And the flat cap. And the accent.
I don't know if you'll like this, but it made me laugh :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDUYOiu3N0Y
Are you going away in the summer?
Have to say i don't really get shows like that. I think i'm just missing that part of my funny bone. Like with sketch shows.
I am not going anywhere this Summer. I haven't been on holiday for years to be honest. Costs way too much and with the whole hermitism it's hard to get me past Glasgow!
Are you?
If i was going on holiday, i think i'd like to go to Grand Rapids. It seems pretty there.
I look so grumpy in my photos and then I tell you about all the stupid stuff that makes me laugh :)
Grand Rapids does seem pretty.
I don't have any plans for the Summer. I have a holiday fund. I don't know what will happen to that.
Hopefully I can make up for my last link with an okay song :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prKWEpMJ2JI
Lilliputty, I was actually wanting to ask you something and it really is no big deal. It’s just something I thought we could try, but if you don’t want to, that’s fine with me :)
I was wondering how you'd feel about me being a bit quieter on your blog for a little while.
I thought that I could wait for you to leave a message or send me a text if you wanted to talk. It might be a nice, relaxed way of doing things :) I know that means there could be a lot of quiet days, but I'm okay with that.
I'm just scared of losing you, but I want you to be okay and to do the things you need to do to get through the day. And that can't always be talking to me :)
And I'll still post the occasional song or if I have something I really want/need to tell you :)
Also, I’ll still text you little nudges and the like if that’s okay. I'd like if we could still say goodnight. I'd really miss that.
Please understand that if I'm quieter it doesn't mean that I've stopped caring. I care about you so much, I really do. I won't say anything else here, but you know how I feel about you. Nudge x
Just send a Dex signal when you need me :)
That sounds like a pretty good idea to me. But you can leave me messages whenever you like. Just maybe not so many epics that i don't have time to reply properly.
It didn't feel like a very natural way to converse. That may just be because i'm not used to talking to anybody that much. Not even my family!
Ps. You have the girliest taste in music :)
You make me smile, Lilliputty :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUes0dGjUI
Now that's more like it!
I wish to be that girl. Tall and willowy and romantic looking. Alas, i have to remain short, hobbit-like and a clumsy mess. I shake my fist at God if he exists! He made me wrong!
Ahem :)
I'm watching Charmed again. The Goo Goo Dolls are playing over the titles. This makes me happy.
How's your day going Dexterous?
I'm at Psych. The noise of women chattering is unbearable :)
I like your look. That girl did look fantastic on her bike, though.
I've never listened to The Goo Goo Dolls! Could you recommend a song?
There is only one song you should listen to: Iris.
Without question their best. Also their most well known but there's a reason for that...it's awesome.
Listen listen.
Acoustic #3 also.
It comes right before Iris on the album, Dizzy Up The Girl.
Fortuitous.
Speaking of chattering women. When school's out, the mum's collect their kids from the primary school and walk down Coffin Way with their screaming brats. Today, the fine ladies of Blair were discussing Game of Thrones. This made me not despair of my podunk town quite as much as usual.
I'm just about to walk home in the rain.
Podunk :) Never heard that before. Word wizard.
I like when you talk about music :) Of course I'll listen to Iris & Acoustic #3 tonight.
Is it all summery in Blair?
Word Wizard? I'll take that but i'm anything but.
Blair is this weird mixture of sunny/warm/stormy/cool.
I keep having to change the number of layers i'm wearing.
Damn this country's bipolar weather and my amphibian blood. They do not mix.
What does the evening hold for old Dexterous?
Cool sweatshirt.
I'm just about to have tea. Then I think I should give my room a bit of a clean, followed by nice, relaxing activities like music and films. I get to have a lie in tomorrow :)
My bedroom is very boring. It needs Lillifying. I bet you'd turn it into something awesome.
I see the remake of Rollerball is on tonight. Blood sport :) Is that on your agenda? I don't think it's for me. Maybe the original.
Nah, think i'll pass on Rollerball. I'm trying to catch up on all the stuff i've been recording. Plus it's New Girl and Dates tonight! I love when tv is good.
Speaking of which, have you been watching The Americans? I'm completely addicted and i've only watched one episode. Highly recommend it m'dear.
Did you manage to get home without being too waterlogged? I do hope so. A drowned Dex would be an unfortunate thing.
Could i turn your room into a Man Cave?
It stopped raining pretty much as soon as I left work, so I didn't get even a little bit wet. Pity, I like having a reason to be all grumpy when I get home :)
I'll definitely give The Americans a shot. It has Matthew Rhys and he played a villain in Columbo so he gets automatic induction into my hall of awesomeness :)
What kind of stuff would be in a Man Cave, apart from Ron Swanson's Pyramid Of Greatness pinned on the wall?
Do you have a Ron Swanson Pyramid Of Greatness poster?
I do not. I really should. Maybe i'd be better at life.
A Man Cave would be somewhat cabin-like with video games, disgustingly comfy chairs, food and drink a hand's breadth away. A dog would sit at your feet and keep you company. A pool table/ping pong table would reside in the corner with surround sound music blasting whatever your manly man's heart desired.
A widescreen 50" tv with Blu-ray, obviously, would hang from the wall as a popcorn machine, cinema style, crackled away in preparation for an anime-fest.
Just some stuff, y'know :)
Man Cave! Love it :) Just so long as I get to play with you.
Listining to Iris again.
I wonder who's better at table tennis.
Iris is one of those songs that's been used so much that it's become dated and cliched. It doesn't stop it being a mighty awesome song however. My favourite GGD song.
It's so sunny and warm in Blair today! I'm gonna go soak it up before it disappears for the rest of the Summer. How the hell is it June, Dex? How did that happen. Like five minutes ago i was ripping open Christmas presents and devouring turkey at a rate of knots!
I'm at Psych, feeling a bit too warm :)
Dex vs Lilly, hmm, I don't know. It'd be fun finding out. I used to like playing table tennis.
Are you gonna have a water fight with your sisters? :)
I don't have any plans for the summer. It'd be nice to do something.
I wasn't even called Dex last Christmas! I wish I'd said something before. But then I would have had to listen to you tell me about turkey and presents, both of which I didn't have :)
Enjoy the sun and warmth, Lilliputty. Nudge.
The last time i played table tennis was in my 4th year of high school. You'll beat me for sure.
You know what i used to like? Badminton. I wasn't very good but i liked playing it. Less aggressive than tennis but whipping the shuttlecock across the net super fast was always fun.
Played it sitting down once. That was more fun than you'd expect.
I think tomorrow will be our last sunny day for a while here in Blair :( Sadness but i might actually get some of my room done if i'm not basking in the sunshine like a spoiled feline.
Hope you get some rays Dexterous one.
I liked badminton too. A friend of mine used to put a net up in his garden. I miss those days.
I hope you get some more sunny days, Lilliputty. I think we both deserve to have a nice summer.
I'll be on a training course tomorrow, 9-5, at a place called Train Shetland near the Shetland College. Just so you know :) I'll probably be daydreaming about you 'basking in the sunshine like a spoiled feline' while I should be listening :)
Just don't fall asleep. That's very bad form. 9-5 though? That's seriously harsh. I hope they give you tea and biscuits at least.
I'm watching Season of the Witch. Oh.My.Goodness. This is so awesomely bad i'm almost liking it.
I'd watch craptacular films with you all through the night. Well, until I fell asleep. I think you'd be a nice person to fall asleep next to. Bedtime companion :)
I'm bringing a packed lunch with me to the training. Mr Kipling's Lemon Layered Slices in individually wrapped snack packs.
Have some ice-cream if it's still warm and sunny in Blair today. That's an order!
P.S. So much amazing stuff on your blog. I'm lucky to know such a phenomenal person who shares these things. That's right, phenomenal :)
I am genuinely worried for your health. Lemon Slices for lunch?! You're gonna put yourself in a sugar coma one day :)
You're probably about 20 minutes away from finishing up with training. Hopefully you're still alive and haven't been bored to death.
I'm, however, going to go outside and enjoy the sunshine with a Calippo and a book. Not rubbing it in your face or anything :)
Ps. I'm so not phenomenal, just a trickster :)
The Lost Boys trilogy. Lilliputty :) I didn't even know there were any sequels.
I shared my Lemon Slices. Okay, I still ended up eating 5 out of the 6, but it wasn't my fault. More people should have taken advantage of my generosity :) I did have a sandwich too, if that makes it any better. Also, I learnt how to non-violently stop someone from choking me, pulling my hair, biting me etc. So now I'm ready for you :)
You are so rubbing it in my face, but I like the thought of you being all summery :) I've been calling a Calippo a Calypso for 20 years! It better not be orange, the one you're having. I like the thought of you enjoying your day, but there are limits :)
You're not a trickster, you're a pirate :)
I am a pirate! And those who call me anything but will feel my wrath. If i can be bothered.
It was indeed an orange Calippo :) Consider your face rubbed. That sounded kind of odd. I promise never to rub your face. Or anyone else's for that matter. Not an acceptable form of human contact.
You know another way to stop people choking or biting you? Give them a Lemon Slice :) That'd work on me for sure.
Ps. The sequels to TLB are awful but i like a complete collection :)
I'd give you my last Lemon Slice. I can't show any more affection for anyone than that :)
No face rubbing, but you can touch it in gentler ways. That sounds kind of odd too :) Anyway, that wasn't so much a face rub as a full blown slap with your orange Calippo. A far more acceptable form of human contact :)
I'm just about to make a cup of tea.
Hah! You're such a liar. You'd rather eat your own hand than give me your last slice of anything dessert-based!
But i understand. You need the sugar to live, for you are a slave to your addiction. It's just like i couldn't give up my last crumb of bread to you. No way, no how!
I think i'm gonna try and bake something this weekend and taunt you with whatever it is :) Buahaha
Lilliputty, you're so evil :) I still want you to bake something good, though. You know how much I like you telling me about sweet things :)
I like Banoffee Pie.
I was so tired yesterday evening. I spent most of it flaked out on my bed after getting high on Lemon Slices :) I tried to watch Inglourious Basterds, but only lasted until I texted you goodnight. I'm working today at Psych.
Longest day of the year, as if you didn't know :) I wish you were here to enjoy the summer twilight with me. Except that it was raining lightly this morning on the walk to work. I hope it's a little bit better in Blair.
Well, you've never heard of a friendly pirate, now have you!
Did you know you get Cola flavoured Calippos? I had no idea and i really very much want one. I've always been rather fond of cola-flavoured icey things.
Banoffee Pie is a thing of beauty but i'd rather a Banana Split. Or a Banana and Strawberry Smoothie. Nummers. But i can't handle that much fruit. Makes me an unwell girl. Hrumph.
Ugh, it can't make its mind up in Blair about what kind of whether it wants. Keeps flipping between sunny and gloomy. I hate weather like this! First world problems. Woe is me :)
Ah well, i'm off to bask in the sun/gloom for a little bit. Hope you're not still stuck in an office, Dexface.
Had to use your non-violent skills on anyone yet?
I did know about Cola flavoured Calippos, only because I looked up Calippos on wikipedia the other day :) I want one too!
I love Banana Splits :) The last time I had one was when I took my brother out for a meal on his birthday last November.
Do you ever have barbecues in your garden?
I've escaped the office using my non-violent skills :) The weather is quite nice now. It's the midsummer carnival this weekend and the Bergen-Lerwick yacht race.
Hopefully you get more sun than gloom, Lilliputty.
We NEVER barbecue. Mostly because the rest of my family hates it. I, personally, think it's oh so good. One of my fondest food memories is going to a fair in the local rugby field - which happens to be about 5 minutes from my house and 2 minutes from my grandparents - and procured myself a barbecued sausage roll. That's a sausage in a roll, not a 'sausage roll'. Although i so want to know what a barbecued sausage roll tastes like now!
Do you barbecue?
And will you be attending the midsummer carnival? I'm so jealous of Lerwick and its many and varied festivities. I wanna burn stuff, dressed as a viking :( If i did that in my back garden, do you think anyone would be bothered?
I am planning on actually lighting my sparklers for Bonfire Night this year. And having s'mores!
Barbecue. Not really. Maybe 2 or 3 times with those disposable ones you can buy from the supermarket. Obviously, it's not me who does the barbecuing. That's way beyond my capabilities :)
Do they still have a fair in the rugby field?
It's supposed to be raining tomorrow, during the carnival :( Not that I was going to go. You make me feel guilty about not attending all these festivities :) Maybe the film/book festival at the end of August.
Are those the sparklers you found in your room a little while back? I imagine your room as a kind of treasure trove with all this cool stuff hidden around the place :)
I so wish we could light a fire and have s'mores. And sausage rolls. Both kinds :) Would perhaps look a bit weird if we were dressed as vikings :)
Nuh uh! It'd look awesome! We're Scottish dammit, we've got viking blood! Probably. Not. But whatever, if i'm a pirate, then i'm a viking too! You as well! I don't know why i'm so excited about this but i am!
My sister taunts me with s'mores recipes on Pinterest. I both hate and love her.
You should definitely go to the film/book fair. I demand it!
The Up Helly Aa song, for the girl who wants to be a viking :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRV9fl-xj10
You're always taunting me with stuff on you Pinterest page. You makes me so hungry :) And the Samoyed puppies. Not that they make me hungry :) I never got to see our Samoyeds as puppies. They were fully grown by the time I came around. Sadness.
If I go to the film/book fair, please let me send you a programme so you can recommend stuff. Remember, you're my go-to-girl for books, films, music etc. I still regret not going to see Sightseers last year.
Warm Bodies looks fantastic! A little bit jealous you got to see it :) Damn Mareel programmers! It was on our list of films to shove down their pie-holes :)
I want that to be our national album. Seriously. I'm going to learn all the words and sing it when high on s'mores :)
If only i had a samoyed puppy to join in the festivities. Hrumph.
Don't get too excited about Warm Bodies. It's a fluff piece really. Seriously sweet though. The idea that a zombie can be awkward just tickles me and Nicholas Hoult's really great at it. I remember he was just a wee thing in About A Boy. Oh, how things have changed! He's a rather handsome boy now, in a strange, almost effete male model way. Doesn't do it for me but i can appreciate a pretty face.
Ps. Sightseers really is wickedly funny. You should get it and experience the unadulterated madness.
Great, now I have learn all the words to the UHA song too :) I don't want to be shown up as less of a viking than a girl from Blairgowrie :)
I was looking up Zombie movies this morning and came across a 1980s horror trashfest called Re-Animator. I thought you might be interested :)
Also listened to a lot of music. I don't know if you'll like these 2 songs. They're quite different from each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvrLPIC3xwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26OOW43_e3s
Did you watch the Fleetwood Mac documentary last night?
Ps. I'd ask what look does do it for you, but I kind of don't want to know :)
Ah, Re-Animator. That's been on my list of things to see for oh so long. I don't know why i can't around to doing these things! Such a lazy girl.
I have watched that FM documentary about 5 times now though. That takes effort, right?
Today i'm rediscovering just how good 'Tusk' actually is. I forget cause Rumours is the perfect album. I know you're making a face at that comment but you shouldn't be because it's true! So there.
Thanks for the tunes! I saw stills from the Computer Magic video a while back and forgot to look it up and have a proper watch. Saving the day yet again, Mr D. Epistolean :)
I was just watching a Cat documentary with the family. I think i made the most girly noises every time a cat appeared on screen.
It was really interesting actually. Explained a lot about my cats that i had an inkling about but wasn't entirely sure of. Like my ginger feline, Dizzy. He used to go missing for hours, sometimes days and i was sure he had a different family out there somewhere - he better not have though. He was mine! Mine, all mine! - but now i know the sneaky critter was probably just going into other cat's houses and eating their food! No wonder he was a sturdy fellow.
Ps. The only pattern in my preference of boyfriend has been they were all musicians. Classic mistake!
I don't think I could cope with having a cat for a pet. I'd start to worry if it disappeared for days. I'd need a tracking device :) It makes me so sad when I see those missing cat posters. But we can have as many cats as you like if we ever share a house :)
I love how excited you get over cute animals on your Pinterest page :)
I didn't make a face. I like Rumours. There, that sounded convincing :) And Tusk. Seriously, I put a lot of faith in how you rate songs on your last.fm page. I know that if you like a song, then it's worth me listening to.
I'm watching Die Hard :)
Ps. I wish I could tell you about my preference of girlfriend :) The girl I liked in high school did study Fine Art in Dundee!
Die Hard? Again? There must be a limit to how many times you can watch Brucey blow shit up? No? Me neither.
Did i tell you i'd watched the newest one and how unbelievably tragic it was?
Hehe, Harvey the news anchor.
"As in Helsinki, Sweden."
No! You didn't tell me. You must have been too ashamed :)
Still love it when he gets smacked in the face. So damn satisfying.
I really must have been too ashamed because wow. I can watch some complete crap, you know i can but that was beyond crap. The kind of crap that never crosses over into being magnificent crap, like Ladyhawke which i gleefully watched this afternoon :)
Wimbledon next week! My favourite two weeks of Summer.
You're a sneak. I just texted you to say goodnight :)
I'm ashamed to tell you that I've never seen Ladyhawke. Do you think I'd like it?
I'm excited for Wimbledon too! I watched a bit of Eastbourne today. It sure looked windy :)
Hmm, Ladyhawke's a hard one. It's very marmitey. You'll have to watch it :)
Okay :)
Are you going to read now?
I am. It's time to venture back into the war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts.
G'night budster. Your text didn't come through. I don't have any credit to reply anyhow!
Night Lilly. You're the fantastiest girl I know.
That's what I wrote in my text :)
Just so you know, if it ever looks like I've forgotten to say goodnight or reply to a text, it's probably a fault with technology :) Same with here. Sometimes my comments end up in the void. And I have no way of knowing if my texts or comments have disappeared. Please don't think I'm ignoring you. I wouldn't do that :)
The war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts. I had no idea that was the title of the book :)
Wimbledon tomorrow :) I don't know what I'll do until then. I think I'll go to the shops and buy something sweet just in case you decide to taunt me with any baking :) Also, there's a good chance I'll watch Die Hard 2 tonight, followed by Joy Ride! Don't look at me like that :)
I hope you eat nice summer desserts while watching the tennis, Lilliputty :)
You're gonna page homage to Blonde Keanu? What a nice fellow you are. He needs all the support he can get.
I am looking forward to the latest FAF movie though. Yay for gratuitous car chases!
I did not bake today. Instead i watched Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh's version of course) with my Mum. Loveeee that adaptation. Branagh and Emma Thompson are just the most perfect casting.
And then you've got the more unconventional actors like the stupidly handsome Denzel Washington, the mind-boggingly funny Michael Keaton and of course, Keanu 'Woah' Reeves. Perfection!
What've you done today my dear? :)
Oh, and to satisfy your need for sweet stuff, my sister baked a cheesecake :)
Much Ado About Nothing to Fast & Furious 6. Just one of the reasons I adore you Lilliputty :)
I've just done the usual :) music, youtube, Amazon etc. I don’t know if you’ll like this. I think it’s quite sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPbr8iLXE8
I wish I could have been watching Much Ado About Nothing with you. That's some cast! Still looking forward to Joss Whedon's adaptation?
You didn't bake & I didn't go to the shops like I said I would :) I have been promised croissants for later, though. Or a trifle :)
I love cheesecake :) My mum makes a ridiculously unhealthy white chocolate cheesecake, mainly for guests and parties. She usually makes 2 in case one goes wrong (she doesn't do a lot of baking). I get the bad cheesecake :)
Ps. Feast flavoured Lip Smacker!
My sister often comments on my rather schizophrenic taste in movies.
Obviously still massively excited about Whedon's much Ado. Nathan Fillion as Dogberry? Genius. I'm not sure he'll outshine Mr Keaton though. It's a hard performance to surpass.
Don't you just love him? Favourite Keaton moment?
I'm stuck on Beetlejuice. I know it's not his best but for me it never fails to make me the happiest girl alive.
Now, you would not have a problem with me trying to get my hungry mitts on white chocolate cheesecake. Waaaay too sweet. I don't really like white chocolate to be honest, for the same reason. And i don't really like cheesecake either! But i do love the base. But only when it's had cheesecake filling on top of it. I don't know why, maybe because it becomes moister but whatever it does, it tastes of awesome. Which is why i'm gonna steal some off my sister later :)
My dad brought home fruit salads from M&S yesterday. They shell-shaped fruit jelly in them. So freakin' good. Love when my dad goes to the shops, he always comes back with the best stuff.
My sisters are pretty good at it too. The eldest one brought home Oreo ice cream cones yesterday. I have no words.
Still gonna be Joyriding it out this eve?
Dunno what's on the agenda for me tonight but there has been talk of rewatching Friday Night Lights. Tim Riggins! :)
Ps. Thanks for the music, a little too soft for me but good effort! Hah, so patronising. I'm sorry :)
Hmm, I'd probably go for Beetlejuice too :) Actually, I've not seen that many Michael Keaton films, as much as I love the man. Beetlejuice, Batman, Batman Returns, Pacific Heights, The Paper, Jackie Brown.
My mum brought back trifle & a chocolate 'tear & share' bun, but now all I want is fruit salad and Orea ice cream cones, damn you :) Only joking. I'm seriously craving trifle :) But those things your family brought home do sound fantasty! What kind of ice cream are you gonna put in the cones?
I hope you're wearing your 'What would Tim Riggins do?' shirt :) I'm still undecided about Joy Ride. Maybe half-watch / half-do-something-else :)
Ps. Don't worry about not liking the music. It's good that you tell me :) I do kind of wish I was a better judge of what you'd like, though :)
Night Lilly. I sent a text, but I don't trust my phone after last night :)
Also, it seems very unfair that your sister makes cheescake when you only like the moist base. I'd like the whole thing. It should have been mine! :)
Sweet dreams, Lilliputty :)
Ugh, sorry for the delay in reply, matey. Busy night and busy day!
Don't fret over not knowing what i like. The only person who's ever been able to gauge what i like is my Dad. I've never been musically compatible with anyone. Which is not me saying i'm superior musically. I'm anything but. For god's sake, i'm listening to a painfully emo band at the moment (Sleeping With Sirens). I just think i'm more willing than most of the people i've met in my life to venture into all genres of music. I knew a boy once who listened solely to heavy metal and found it positively offensive to listen to anything else. I found that very strange. Especially as, if you look at the liner notes of most bands albums, you'll find all kinds of music listed. Even heavy metal bands.
Rambling, rambling.
Did you end up watching Joy Ride and devouring trifle?
The family and I watched The Proposition. I loveeee that movie. And the soundtrack. Nick Cave can be godly sometimes.
“When,” said the moon to the stars in the sky
“Soon,” said the wind that followed the moon
“Who,” said the cloud that started to cry
“Me,” said the rider, dry as a bone
Kills me.
Nadal just went out of Wimbledon in the first round. WTF? And i missed the entire match! WTFFF?
Ps. Oreo ice cream cones are full of ice cream already you goof.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/ice_cream/oreo_vanilla_ice_cream_cone_4x100ml.html
That's okay, Lilliputty. I know we can't always talk :)
And don't worry about rambling :) I could listen to you talk about music all day. Well, that's a slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean :) Films too. I'll be sure to catch The Proposition next time it comes around. And Nick Cave has been on my list of music to listen to for ages. Is there a good place to start? Apart from The Rider Song which I've just listened to :)
I did devour trifle last night, while I watched Die Hard 2. Didn't watch Joy Ride and show my support to Blonde Keanu, though. Couldn't be bothered :)
I missed Nadal going out too! I didn't even know until you told me. Maybe catch the highlights tonight. Enjoy your Oreo ice cream cones :) So much better with the ice cream. I don't know how my mind works :)
Ps. I wonder how you'll describe my music tastes when I become a boy you used to know. Indie pop. Girly :) I was very shoegazey today. I found this song on your last.fm page called 23 by Blonde Redhead. Crushed it :)
Girly, for sure :) But i'll phrase it in a more eloquent way.
With Nick Cave i would start with No More Shall We Part. Not because it's necessarily the best but because i like it the most. For the moment at least. Such a fickle creature.
I know how i'll describe you! As the boy who changed my mind about Camera Obscura, a Herculean feat no other managed previously.
Oh, and 23? Now there's a song i was completely addicted to. It had everything! I didn't really enjoy the rest of the album though. But that was a good while ago, perhaps i should try again. It might just turn out to be wondrous! I love when that happens.
You shouldn't always trust me most loved things on Last.fm though, i think i get a little heart happy when i listen to music.
What despicably sugary things did you indulge in today, Dexterous?
Lilly, this song is just so poppy and girly that I have to share it with you :) Kind of reminds me Haim's 'Don't Save Me'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8XmoroZ3zo
I like looking around your last.fm page. That's all. Don't worry about me placing an unhealthy amount of trust in your musical judgement. I can make up my own mind about things :) I do think you're pretty awesome, though :)
I guess I'm just a little bit worried about our birthday and that I might totally misread what you like and get you something that you hate. No hints, though. I want to surprise you :)
I still have some trifle and chocolate 'tear and share' bun left. I didn't go out today, so I had to rely on sweet things being brought to me :)
Have you had a good day, Lilliputty?
Night Lilly :)
I sent a text a little while ago but I'm worried that you didn't get it because it didn't deliver the other night. These small things, like saying goodnight to you, matter to me. I'm silly, I know :)
Damn. That is the poppiest song i've heard in a while.
And i love it! I shall be dancing around my room to that for about a week. Thanks boyface :)
Don't worry about the impending day of birth. Just go with your gut! I'm sure it'll be awesome and i'll love it. To be honest, i just love receiving presents :) The spoiled menace that i am.
Today was a good day. Not much happened but it was pleasant and trouble free. Now i'm gonna wrap it up with some strawberries and book reading. My life is so freakin' cushy it scares me.
Night Dexterous! :)
Strawberries & book reading. That sounds like a nice way to end a good day :) Uneventful, pleasant & trouble free is the kind of life I like, except for when I get a boyish urge to go on an adventure :)
I didn't do much yesterday either. I'm going to Mareel today, though.
Thanks for the trailers, girlface :) You're awesome at finding stuff. April from Parks & Recreation. Filthy, filthy girl :)
I'm glad you didn't mind the poppy song :) And I'll gladly take being the boy who changed your mind about Camera Obscura :)
Do you want to know something embarrassing? I'm not even 100% sure what Emo music is!
Ps. Supernatural. Another show I've never seen. I suck!
I wish i had more of that urge to adventure. I get too fearful and wimp out. Perhaps why i haven't left the country yet. Or home for that matter! Not once have i ever looked after myself...and i'm 25 going on 26 very very soon. Little scary! I'm still 15 really. All this ageing business is nonsense!
It's Tuesday! Hit me with the new movies then, m'dear. I'll see what i approve of :)
Emo music is:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo
and bands like:
Paramore
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Jimmy Eat World
Sunny Day Real Estate (the origin of emo, when it was more substantial and well...good)
Funeral For A Friend
Anberlin
Flyleaf
Hellogoodbye
Taking Back Sunday
Youmeatsix
The All-American Rejects
and so on and so forth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emo_artists
Pretty good list of the whiney bunch i still hold a special place in my former emo heart for.
It's so cold today! I'm back to wearing a wooly jumper! Well, not wool, cotton cause of the allergies and all.
Is it any better up in Lerwick?
World War Z
Despicable Me 2
Byzantium
River & Tides
Fast & Furious 6
Aguirre: The Wrath Of God
The Audience
Thoughts? Besides F&F 6 :)
The sun is out at the moment, but it's not very warm. I still walked to Mareel with my winter coat zipped up :)
I've never really looked after myself either. I lived in Edinburgh for a few years, and that's something, but it wasn't like I was working, paying rent etc. And I did end up back home :) You could always come up here for an adventure. Okay, so we'd probably do pretty much what we do now :)
Thanks for the list of emo music, Lilliputty. I love lists :) Were you really very emo?
Nah, not really. I was always listening to other music as well, so i wasn't a full emo. I didn't dress especially emo either. No bleeding hearts t shirts or so much eyeliner it looks like i've been chimney sweeping. I did and do like my hoodies and sneakers though. And i did have a particularly sweepy fringe for a while! Crap. I was totally emo. Just shoot me.
I dunno what i am now. My sister calls me a hipster but i don't see it. I don't think i dress like a fashion victim. Who knows. I like what i like!
Anywayyyy, i think you should go see World War Z for the funs, Despicable Me 2 because minions are the bomb :), Byzantium because i would and most definitely Aguirre: The Wrath Of God because it's meant to be outstanding and i won't get a chance to see it so you must go for me!
Lerwick would be an adventure but it wouldn't be a lone adventure. I have to do that someday. To prove i'm not a total scaredy cat. I don't even like taking the bus on my own...
Your film recommendations have been noted :)
You just pretty much told me what to get you for your birthday. A dragon! Although I'd probably keep it for myself :)
I keep thinking it would be nice to go somewhere on my own, where I didn't know anybody, and just do my own thing. But I'd probably be severely disappointed with the whole experience. This is me we're talking about :)
I'm a bit concerned that I may have been a bit of an emo kid in university. Actually, I know I was, sans the music. I'm just very plain now :) Would you take a boy shopping for clothes? I mean, I really like your look, but you are a girl. I've had bad experiences of girls taking me shopping for clothes, but you might be different :)
I just had steak for tea. Carnivore!
Nuh uh. You're an Omnomnomnivore!
Hmm, i've never dressed a boy before. But i reckon if given the opportunity i'd dress all boys in jeans, t shirts and checked shirts. The lumberjack look is most definitely a winner. Par exemple:
http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/3/9/4/2/3/1/chris-pine-hot-plaid-42420556228.png
It's not very nice of me but something i absolutely detest about men's clothing is when their jeans are too short. For god's sake men, know your height! It's a total deal breaker.
I lie, i'm not that shallow but i still don't wanna see your socks. Or even worse, your ankles.
I'm a horrible person :(
You're an Omnomnomnivore too :)
You're not a horrible person, Lilliputty :) Not in the slightest. Although I am afraid that I might be too unfashionable to be seen with. I am pretty hopeless when it comes to clothes :) Choosing clothes actually scares me a little bit!
If anything, all my clothes are a little too big for me :( Hands hiding in my sleeves and so forth. But I honestly think I'd be very happy wearing what you described. Hmm, maybe I would let you take me shopping :) Not sure how I feel about the waistcoat in the photo, though :)
I don't know what I like most of the time. That's my problem!
And if you can tear yourself away from John Waite :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRapxSBi2Jk
Memoryhouse :)
I like to hide in my clothes too! If a jumper/sweatshirt/jacket doesn't cover to at least half way down my fingers then i'm not happy at all.
Don't worry, i wouldn't put you in a waistcoat. They're mainly for douchebags which you're certainly not!
Wanna know something? The less a boy cares about his clothes, the more appealing they are.
This:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zkJ3V3OTC7I/TH8YJnR_7mI/AAAAAAAAAJo/wGvT4QApTfU/s1600/swim_free_underwater_72391781.jpg
Screams 'asshole'.
Where are this:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/a5f8f21479c70bed83c2b2bc6721b514/tumblr_mgpe0r2VHV1rmhrv5o1_500.jpg
Very attractive indeed!
There you go. Fashion lesson of the day, from a very unfashionable girl :)
Is that Ryan Gosling in the second photograph? Now that's one comfy looking jumper!
Yep, I'd definitely let you dress me up :) You do know that I'm gonna have to buy a checked shirt now, don't you? :)
Maybe it's just boys who look as if they don't care about their clothes, but really do, that are appealing. Genuine non-carers end up looking like me :)
Glad I'm not a douchebag, though. I'd have to agree with you there :) And my clothes whisper 'ignore' rather than scream 'asshole' :)
And sweet things for today: pink iced doughnuts!
Hope you've had a good day, Lilliputty :)
Ps. I really like your clothes when I see them in photos. Of course, that means nothing coming from a boy like me :) You'll have to give me another fashion lesson another day.
Night Lilly :)
Could you tell me if you're still getting my texts? I sent one a few minutes ago but I have a sneaking suspicion they are not getting through. Don't worry about replying to them. It's just that I'd like to know if there's something wrong with my phone. It might matter one day :)
I hope you enjoyed awesome tv night :) Awkward, Dates etc.
Your text did indeed come through but i'm lacking funds again to reply. Sorry 'bout that. It's what happens when i spend all my money on clothes and movies and books...which is always.
You had Homer doughnuts? Damn you. I had a Rocky. Not really the same, is it?
I shall bid you goodnight here and quite possibly until i get paid next month!
That's okay, Lilliputty. Clothes, movies & books are far more worthwhile things to spend your money on. Please don't worry about replying to my texts. I'm a happy bunny now that I know you're still receiving them.
I did indeed have Homer doughnuts yesterday. I still have some left. They'd better not have become stale. I'd rather have a Rocky than a stale doughnut. Hmm, do you know what I really want right now? A Cadbury's Wildlife Bar. Or a Taz. I wonder if they still make those things.
Have some happy vibes, you fantasty girl.
Ps. That Howl cosplayer!
I am incredibly cheap when it comes to my phone. I resent the amount of money i have to spend, when i could simply email! I guess that's why people use facebook to do all their communicating but meh, i'm not joining that bollocks!
Cadbury Wildlife Bars were soooo good. Did you eat them in stages. One animal at a time? I don't think they make them anymore. At least not like they used to. What a bummer. I really want one now. Maybe i'll just get my sister to get me some Animal Crackers instead. I'm pretty sure you could Halloween Animal Crackers for a while. I'll have to look this Halloween, which i am most definitely going to make an effort to dress up for! Even if it's just prancing around my house in a Kiki's Delivery Service outfit and begging my parents for a black cat with a pissy attitude :)
I was looking around for the Halloween Animal Crackers and i found this:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YuXASTOL6H0/TMtwGUyDj9I/AAAAAAAAFks/HyzwRJ6Bra0/s1600/IMG_2355.JPG
Want! Damn them for being limited edition :(
They don't make Taz bars anymore either. Not in Taz form anyway. You'd have to get a Freddo or the Australian version, Caramello Koala which i've had and they're not that nice.
Sweet jesus i need sugar!
I bow to your chocolatey knowledge. I do remember eating Wildlife bars in stages :) 3 stages, wasn't it?
Pop tart, chocolate, fudge, Halloween, orange frosting, vampire bats, ghosts. WANT!!!!! (come and get me, grammar nazis).
Boo to limited editions. They make awesome things and no sooner than they've got you hooked, they take them away again. Sob :( Like Doritos. I still look forlornly at the shelves in the supermarket because the took my favourite flavour away.
Has our friendship got to the email swapping stage yet? I mean, I'd like you to have mine if you ever want to send something private and don't want to send a text.
What did you think of cosplay? Under different circumstances, do you think you could have been a cosplay kid, hanging out in Harajuku every Sunday? You have to take a photo of yourself dressed as Kiki. For me. Please :)
Ps. I love Animal Crackers!
Were you watching that Federer match? Oh my goodness. That's three of the greats out now.
Nadal
Tsonga
and now Federer.
What's going on?!
If Murray goes out, i'm personally going to punch him in the testicles :)
Hmm, i don't think i would have been a cosplay kid. Too lazy. I imagine it tastes a hell of a lot of commitment to dress like that. Plus, i'm adverse to putting stuff in my eyes. No funny coloured contact lenses for me!
What was your favourite flavour of Doritos? Mine's the Lime ones. Nom.
Ps. Your emailed has been saved. You may receive an email but you won't know when it's coming. It could be today. It could be tomorrow. It could be next month! You'll never know :)
I did watch it. What's going on this year? As for Murray, I'm sure Ivan Lendl will do the testicle punching for you if he doesn't at least make the final :)
Jalapeno Fire Doritos. Nom nom. I didn't even know there was such a wondrous thing as Lime Doritos.
Do you still have some strawberries left? I love all kinds of berries :) I read on wikipedia that a lot of berry picking goes on in the summer in Blair. Trees, rivers, berries, so jealous :) The closest I got to berry picking was helping myself to raspberries off a bush in my neighbour's garden :)
Ps. I'll expect an email when I least expect it :)
Night Lilliputty x
I'm working at Psych 9-5 tomorrow so I should probably get some sleep.
Time to sleep fight some crime! Because I've missed saying it :)
Ps. I'd miss out on so many things if I didn't follow your pages. Thank you :)
Blair is berry picking central. Lots of my friends got jobs there during the Summer throughout high school. You got paid a pretty decent amount for such monotonous work. We also get an influx of Polish people who set up camp in the town every Summer to cash in on the season. They're really very annoying and rude but everybody's gotta eat, i guess. Just wish they had better manners is all. I've got plenty and some to share!
I used to go berry picking with my family when i was little. But i was a menace cause it would be one strawberry/raspberry/bramble for the basket and one for me! I still use that rule when i'm chopping vegetables :)
There used to be a raspberry field about 5 minutes from my house that we'd pick from with my Gran when she came to stay before she lived here. That's gone now of course, what with all the new houses. Sadness.
They build over all my memories. Bastards. I discovered they might be building on this beautiful piece of land beside our local doctor's surgery and hospital. We need to stop breeding, seriously or we'll have no green left and i'll have to move to some backwater hamlet with no people in sight. That sounds appealing actually! Just me, nature and my cats. And hopefully no crazed murders with skin masks and chainsaws.
Well, fuck, i just scared myself out of living on my own in the countryside. Clever girl.
Hope work doesn't suck too much tomorrow, Dexterous. If it does, just have a party in your head :)
G'night!
I hope they don't take any more greenery away from you, Lilliputty. It makes such a difference.
I'd like to go berry picking with you. It seems like a nice summery thing to do. I can totally picture you being a menace, though :) I'm glad you still apply the same rules to vegetable chopping. I'd be worried visiting you in your backwater hamlet because you'd probably mistake me for a crazed killer, you paranoid girl, and attack me with your chopping knife. That would make you the crazed killer! I bet you're pretty skilled with a chopping knife :)
I remember travelling across Norway and stopping at these little fruit stands run by children at the side of the road to buy raspberries. That's the kind of summer job I would have enjoyed as a kid :)
Someone at work just made me a cup of coffee. Except it's coffee in a bag, like tea! It doesn't take much to blow my mind :) And someone else is doing an impression of the screamers from yesterday's tennis. I think I'll imagine something quieter going on in my head than a party. Maybe you reading in the garden and me sleeping next to you :) It's such nice weather here today.
You sell the raspberries, i'll flog the lemonade. There will be adult-ade on offer too. Gotta look after the oldies.
I used to drink Smirnoff Ice, which is basically grown up lemonade. I'm not sure why i did that. I guess because it doesn't taste anything like alcohol. When i went to London with the university, my friends and i were always too tired to go out and party at night, so we'd stay in the hotel with booze from a shop near the hotel. Like the classy girl that i am, i had a big bottle of Smirnoff Ice all to myself. Big mistake. I drunk dial when i'm hammered. Called my then boyfriend and talked a load of embarrassing rubbish at him, which i can't remember and he would never tell me and never will because we did not part on good terms! Thus why, after some deliberation, my friends made a decision to take my phone away during any drunken Lilly instances. And that is one of the many reasons i do not drink anymore!
I got all the way from an innocent raspberry stand to drunken foolishness. Quite impressed by myself :)
I had one mother of a hangover after that drunken night, which is no fun when you're in London and it's unbearably hot and raining AND you're trekking around all the galleries that day. Bleurgh. I looked like a very nauseated zombie that day and somewhere out there is photographic evidence. I hate people and their cameras, immortalising my drunken shame! Swines! Harlots! Cankerblossoms!
I've completely lost my train of thought. Fucksticks.
How's your coffee-bagged day going?
I had on okay day, thanks :)
Learnt about something called 'planking', that went on in Shetland a few years ago. Young folks have their photos taken in the most ridiculous places, posing as a plank (basically lying face down, straight, with your arms at your sides). Y'know, you'd go into a supermarket, pose as a plank on the conveyor belt at the check out, and a friend would take your photo :)
Also, Extreme Ironing! But I didn't really find out what that was all about.
I used to drink things like Smirnoff Ice in university because I didn't like the taste of alcohol either. Hasn't stopped me getting very drunk on a few occasions. People seem to prefer me when I'm drunk, which always makes me feel depressed and puts me off drinking, if that makes sense.
Have you ever made your own lemonade? We had a soda stream when I was a kid :) I can't remember if it was any good.
Back to innocent things like lemonade :)
Ps. Nudge. For telling me stories, you classy girl. And for using the word 'fucksticks' :)
Planking is stupid but Extreme Ironing is not! For example:
http://www.hovanitz.com/images_scc/2003ExtremeIroning.jpg
Bad.Ass.
I used to get the same feeling when i was drunk. It was one of the reasons i'd drink when in company, to feel more at east and not endure those horrible awkward silences i seem to bring out in people.
Hello, my name's Lilly and i can bulldoze your conversation in 5 seconds flat.
Ugh.
We have a soda stream! I don't use it. Fizzy drinks give me stomach aches. I only drink tap water and tea. I miss Coke and Dr Pepper terribly :(
My sister made this yesterday:
http://www.sophistimom.com/raspberry-tiramisu/
I cannot describe how good this is.
It's sitting in the fridge taunting me as i'm back to exercise and eating properly. Coming off my AD for a while completely fucked with my weight. I hate pills and being a girl. Oestrogen be damned.
I hate you and your magical metabolism. Why couldn't i have been born with that? Gimme.
Aw Lilly, it's so unfair you not being able to have fizzy drinks. If it makes you feel any better, I hardly ever have them. I usually drink tap water at meal times.
Nothing beats having a Coke out of a glass bottle in the Philippines, though. Sorry, that was cruel :) But you did taunt me with your sister's raspberry tiramasu which is the sort of thing I would devour in its entirety without any feelings of shame or remorse :) Or a sore tummy, me and my ridiculous metabolism.
I wish I had a baker sister. Not meaning to sound ungrateful, but I'm not that keen on the food I get given at home. Ugh, that does sound ungrateful. But I'll have to fend for myself very soon. My parents are going to Philippines on Sunday for about a month!
Are you still running in your Onitsuka Tigers and doing yoga?
Ps. Extreme Ironing :)
Pps. I didn't ask if today was a good day. Sorry.
Nudge
I've been listening to some Memoryhouse & Echo Lake before going to bed. Sleepy now :)
I'm at Psych 9-5 tomorrow, but I'll message you from work. Dream of friendly cats and eating pudding, Lilliputty.
A whole month of fending for yourself? Oh dear. Will you consume anything but sugar? Will you have pop tarts for dinner and cupcakes for breakfast?
I dunno what'd happen if i had to fend for myself. I'd probably just eat cereal and toast constantly. I'll learn to cook one day...
I'm still in my Tigers but not running. I'm skipping. And before you laugh, try it. It's fucking hard! It's nothing like when you're a little kid and it's easy and fun. Nuh uh. Running wasn't even as hard as this. You're still laughing aren't you? Damn you. I hate exercise :( I so wish i'd been born metabolically superior but alas i have a stomach that doesn't know what to do with food and clings to the calories like a very lonely limpet. But one day i'll be super fit! If i can get over the whole hating to exert myself. Who actually wants to be in pain and all sweaty? Crazy people, that's who.
Right, speaking of exercise, i've got some bicycle crunches to do. Yuck.
Night dearest!
You don't have a very high opinion of me, do you? :) Pop tarts for dinner. Well, I suppose I did have trifle for breakfast this morning :) So, if I can survive on my own, I'm sure you'd be able to.
We all have to exercise, even metabolically superior beings like myself :) Okay, so walking to get places is the only thing I do, but it's kind of like exercise :) I mean, on average, I'd say I walk 3miles a day, which is something I suppose. I'll be walking to the nursery to feed the fish while my parents are on holiday, ungrateful little bastards. The fish, not my parents :)
I remember skipping being fun when I was kid. In my head, I used to do it for hours when it was probably only about 15 minutes :) I can well believe how difficult it would be now. But you'll get used to it, says the boy who never does anything. I'd be worried about destroying stuff with my skipping rope. I hope you've got a nice, spacious place to skip. And some awesome music to listen to while you do it.
This is definitely non-exercise music. Sorry that I've turned a bit shoegazey lately:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIi60E6gDfw&list=PLmXcfn_Wo7K9qt3TAFWRWyKTB96lYhdIp
Oh, never apologise for being shoegazey. I'm a firm believer in the restoring power of shoegaze and Echo Lake are definitely part of the healing process.
That song just makes me wanna lie down in the sunshine for the rest of my life.
3 miles a day? No wonder you're such a skinny bastard. That is all you need to stay healthy. You are however killing it by eating trifle for breakfast! Dude. Not good. One day all your teeth will just abandon ship and you'll no longer be Dexterous Epistolean but Señor Gummychops. Hah. I like that :)
I gave in to a finger's length of Raspberry Tiramisu last night. I couldn't stop myself. My brain was fixated on getting it in my belly. I hate my brain. Stomach and brain are definitely connected and they want all the food! Like the giant bar of Galaxy my sister just brought home. Why are they doing this to me? :(
Oh well, i shall go and skip my way through it in exactly 13 minutes. told my doctor today that skipping's how i'm fitting in exercise and she was actually impressed because she would simply fall flat on her face if she tried. My doctor's so nice. She kayaks and goes climbing and whatnot. Stuff i would never do! She's actually going to Norway in a couple of weeks. Up your way!
This may seem like a funny question but do you feel Scottish?
I want a Pop Tart for dinner. Instead i'm getting fajitas. In my top 10 dinners. Mexican food is awesomesauce! Yes, i just said that but it's okay because Andy from Parks&Rec said it:
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6181277952/h8549814C/
And Andy knows all.
Are you having an okay day my dear? Is it sunny in Lerwick? It is here and lovely and warm. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain though. Suckfest. Ah well. Ill move to Hawaii some day and enjoy the most awesome of Summers!
"The best way to win a boy's heart is to brew a love potion of rainbows and sunsets that makes true lovers sprout wings and fly to a magical castle in the sky where they get married and eat clouds with spoons and use stars as ice cubes in their moonlight punch for ever and ever and EVER!"
Ikki from The Last Airbender: The Legend of Korra :)
Your doctor is so lucky to be going to Norway. Aw man, the fjords, the mountains, the valleys, the little patches of snow, the campsites, the raspberry stands, the winding roads, the tunnels through the mountains, the wooden summer houses. I'd be jealous, but since you say she's so nice, I hope she kayaks along the fjords and climbs the mountains :)
Shetland used to be owned by Norway. Maybe I should feel a bit Norwegian :) If I was abroad and someone asked me where I was from, I would say Shetland, because it's pretty much all I know depsite living in Edinburgh for a few years. So, I guess I'm a Shetlander first and foremost :) Do you feel very Scottish?
Mexican food is awesomesauce! That's exactly what I was talking about yesterday when complaining about the food at home. I'd kill for some fajitas. Yes, I could make my own, but you know what I say to that. 'Fuck off' is what I was to that :)
Señor Gummychops :) The day I get my first filling is the day I give up on sugary things. Yeah, right :) I wouldn't be able to resist a raspberry tiramisu under any circumstances. Maybe a Galaxy bar. I said maybe :)
It was raining in Lerwick today. Non-stop heavy rain from about 8am-4pm. Now it's lovely. Just in time for my 12 day holiday from work :)
Ps. Happy vibes, Lilliputty. In case you need them. I really hope you're "basking in the sunshine like a spoiled feline" :)
Gosh darn it, i was sure i'd replied to this earlier. Apparently i'm going senile.
I thought you'd know where the gif was from :) Clever boy.
I most definitely feel Scottish. Born and bred. I don't feel Scottish in the bagpipes and ceilidhs kinda way though. Uchh nothing worse than stereotypical Scottishisms. Bagpipes are like car alarms or babies crying. You just want it to stop, no matter the cost!
There was something happening near my house last summer, it must have been at the Rugby Club but all i could hear were blasted pipes. I was at the point of screaming. Do you get stuff like that in Lerwick?
Not to be a total dick but muahaha i had the most awesome dinner! So awesome that i do not feel very well. Always a sign that my eyes were bigger than my belly :)
Bagpipes in Lerwick. No, I don't think so, thank goodness :) I don't hear much from my house anyway. Firework displays in November, but they are awesome :)
As for your dinner, skip it off, Lilliputty :) Or is it time for bicycle crunches? Seriously impressed by you!
Hah. You shouldn't be. I'm terrible at this exercise lark. I am getting better at skipping though! I mean, i'm nowhere near this guy yet:
http://youtu.be/O17YM2JFtS4
More like the kid with two left feet but i'm improving!
Watching that guy, it looked like he was waving nunchucks around :)
I thought you might like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bjNp7qmVo
Night Lilly. Sleepy vibes :)
What the what what? I think i like this Ikki chick! Is The Last Airbender worth watching? You know i need your wisdom on such matters :)
Sorry for not replying until now. Everything kinda got away from me last night and today. I've only just finished doing the daily tidy up. My family are middens.
How you doing today my Dexterous friend? Has it been a good Saturday?
I do hope so. Have your parents left for the Philippines yet? Or is that tomorrow? Wish i could just jet off somewhere for two weeks. I'm thinking somewhere pleasantly warm with bookshops and ice cream parlours. Know anywhere like that? First place that comes to mind is Italy. Florence has always been on my list of places to see.
I skipped too hard yesterday and now my ankles hurt :( I don't like this game.
That's okay. You know I'll wait for you to reply no matter how long it takes :)
Actually, 'The Legend of Korra' is not an anime, it's Nickelodeon. My wisdom on American cartoons isn't so great. Sorry. But Ikki looks like a delightful little monster, doesn't she? :)
Lilliputty, if you go to Florence, get some ice cream from this place:
http://www.percheno.firenze.it/index.php?lang=en
My parents haven't gone yet. Tomorrow. But they are doing their best today to make sure that I'll be glad to see them go. I'm such a bitch :)
Rest your ankles, Lilliputty, and watch some tennis. Please tell me you get to relax now you've done the daily tidy up.
Ps. My family are middens too :)
I basically just drooled all over my keyboard. Damn that ice cream shop looks freakin' amazing!
I need to get a passport and go right now!
:)
I hope you get to see Florence one day.
Have a lovely evening, Lilliputty.
Nudge.
Night Lilly. If I can sleep after watching pencil face :)
Have something a little less scary and a bit more sweet. You should totally take credit for me finding this since I found them through your last.fm page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1AmfAwcX8
Ps. Buttercup was always the best Powerpuff Girl :)
That wee girl is way braver than i. I would never have slain the beast and sent it off to sea!
G'night Dexterous, sorry for Pencil Face but he was too bizarre not to post :)
The Faculty :) Look at that cast list! We rented it when I was a teen. Films, fizzy drinks & Haribo :) I never realised The Faculty had such an awesome song in it! I so need my Lilliputty to point these things out.
Have you seen a film called Varsity Blues? I just remembered we rented that in high school too. I haven't seen it since. American Football, Van Der Beek, Blonde Keanu & a girl in a whipped cream bikini. See, I've given a lot of support to Blonde Keanu over the years without even realising it :)
I really hope your ankles are feeling a bit better today. Poor Lilly :( Is it nice weather in Blair? It's cloudy here, but it can't be too bad because I hear the sound of a lawnmower.
I'm not sure if you'll like this, but it has Juliette Binoche and fireworks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvflpqOb5M
So, i'm completely in love with that song and the video. Thanks Dex :) You just made my day. I'm not even a Juliette Binoche fan and that made me like her muchly.
Oh, and Varsity Blues if one of my favourite sports movies :) Along with Bull Durham, Any Given Sunday, Invincible, We Are Marshall, Tin Cup and so on and so sporty forth! Love a good sports movie. They always put you in a good mood.
Ugh, it's weird weather here again. Cloudy and sunny, with outbursts of violent rain. And it's cold. Not a happy Sunday, weather-wise. I'm just about to go put on another layer to keep the cold from my bones. Do you feel the cold much, Dex?
You're all on your lonesome now aren't you? Is you brother still around? I hope he feeds himself better than you do! Trifle for breakfast, honestly :)
Well, I've only been on my lonesome for less than an hour :) They left me a ton of homebakes. Chocolate cake, millionaire's shortbread, marbly and peanutty squares, some coconutty thing which I'm sure you'd like :) My brother is here to keep an eye on me, though.
I was almost certain you'd seen Varsity Blues. I don't know why, it just seems like something you'd watch. Because you're awesome :) I'm thinking World War Z on Tuesday, Aguirre on Wednesday, and Despicable Me 2 on Thursday. I'm gutted I missed Byzantium. I didn't know it was about vampires :(
I used to feel the cold more than I do, I think. I used to get really cold fingers, but I don't notice it so much any more. And my room is well heated now, instead being freezing cold.
Is your room pretty cosy?
I keep missing The Americans :( Has it still got you hooked?
Ps. I'm so glad you liked the music video :)
My room is not warm. The double glazing has gone in my window and we don't have the heating on during the late spring/autumn months. I hate it but i'm not paying the bills! My fingers are so cold right now. A cup of tea should sort me out though.
I'm jealous of your cinema week. When i finally move out, i'm gonna make sure i'm near a cinema so i can go all the time. Yessum.
For now i shall just have to make do with awesome tv shows like The Americans and The Walking Dead which started its third season yesterday! I think the dvd section of my birthday list is mainly going to be made up of tv series i can't afford to buy myself :)
Ps. Damn you for all your yummy sounding sweet things. You lucky duck.
More birthday hints :) Your love of tv makes me happy :)
I can empathise with you. My room used to be very cold and it doesn't get the sun. Now the parents are away, I can spend as much time in the living room as I like :)
I'd prefer having a cinema at home so I didn't have to go out :) I feel a bit awkward going to Mareel on my own. But I suppose it doesn't need make difference once the film has started. I did need someone to hug, though, when the lights went on after Broken :)
I think I'll go to the butcher tomorrow and buy a bunch of different stir fries. Mmm, chilli beef :) Plus, I haven't been able to get Mexican food off my mind since you mentioned it. There's more to my diet than sweetness :)
Enjoy your cup of tea. I hope it warms your fingers. I wish you could make me one.
Night Lilly.
You're just a mean green mother from outerspace :) So many lovely things on your blog.
Have you ever seen 'Welcome To The Dollhouse'? I haven't, but it's a film I've wanted to see for a long time. I hope you don't mind that I ask for your thoughts on so many things.
I've spent waaaay too much time on the net today. My fingers are sore and i only have myself to blame. And tumblr.
I haven't seen WTTD but i've always wanted to. It looks so quirky and lovely. So many movies i wanna see Dex and there just isn't enough time and they keep on making more!
G'night boyface. Hope you enjoy the peace and quiet.
Poor Kristen Stewart. Did you fight through the pain to write that last blog entry? :) I'm selfish. I like when you spend a lot of time on the internet because you give me so many lovely things. But I do worry about your sore fingers.
I'd say I thought these songs were maybe your type of thing. But I don't think you have a type of thing. You like what you like, and that's why you're my go-to-girl :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYUcqmpHJbk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_iWolgTR9o
Anyway, I hope your day is filled with chai lattes, sunshine, tennis, ice cream, food that is awesomesauce, summery desserts, and all the films, music & books that your heart desires. Is there enough time in the day for all that?
Foy Vance = instant love.
Today was a typical Monday. I tidy up everyone else's crap and fight with my middle sister. We are at loggerheads most of the time right now. She drives me nuts.
I did watch lots of tennis though. Thought Andy Murray was gonna get put out for a second. It would be pretty interesting if the Top 4 were out this year. But i doubt that'll happen with the way Djokovic is playing. I fear he may be the Terminator in disguise.
Was i too harsh about K-Stew? I don't actually believe that's possible but from an outsider's perspective it may have been a tad bitchy :)
How's your first properly free day gone? I hope you've done something enjoyable.
I'm quite sleepy.
Foy Vance, Vance Joy. Very confusing for me too :)
Sorry to hear about your Monday, Lilliputty. I really hope things get better. I wish you could come over to my house whenever you needed a break. We could drink tea and watch films.
My day was pretty non-descript. Watched tennis, washed clothes, listened to music. Good day for hanging washing. Sunny and windy. And Djokovic, you could shoot a tennis ball at him with a cannon and it would still come back. Scary.
Your blog entry about K-Stew made my morning :)
I'll send you a message to say goodnight, sleepy girl. Hmm, I don't know what I'll watch tonight. I bet you'd choose me something awesome if you were here.
Ps. Hug. Just because I think you need one.
Night Lilliputty.
I've just been watching the video of that cat being fed with chopsticks again :)
Ps. Princess parts :)
Y'know, i spent the whole time typing those two words thinking, 'Vance Joy. Vance Joy. Vance Joy' and i i still got it wrong. There go some more brain cells.
Would you like to know something that sucks? I bet you would. Dreaming that you're crying. Like, hurt your throat only able to make vowel sounds crying. And then waking up. It's a total bummer and has affected my whole day. I'm so tired. Hate my brain.
I could do with my Misty back for a cuddle and feeding time with chopsticks. That'd make me feel better. If i was a horrible person, i'd emotionally blackmail my parents into getting another cat for the sake of my health. It's been proven that owning a pet helps with stress and mental wellbeing. But i can't do that.
My dad did have a Border Collie cross in his practice last week and it's just had puppies. He's said he may be able to arrange me seeing them if i want. They live right next to the business. But i dunno. I don't think i could be in that close proximity with collie puppies and leave without them all!
Enough of my gloominess. How's your day been? Are you getting rained on as spectacularly as we are?
I'm always here if you need someone to talk to, Lilliputty. About anything.
I haven't cried in my sleep for a very long time, but I still remember the dream. It's a horrible feeling. No wonder it has affected your day. And the weather can't have helped. Sunny & cloudy in Lerwick.
I wish I could cheer you up. And give you a hug. The last dream I had, a bee was charging towards me and I ducked to avoid it, but it went down the back of my jumper :) It's difficult to explain what happened next. I've never been stung by a bee, but if it's anything like a dream bee sting, I don't what it to ever happen to me in real life. I swear my pain was real. When I woke up, I was the same shape as a parachutist who's jumped out of a plane. If you can imagine that :)
I don't think a cat could have a more thoughtful girl to look after it than you. I really hope your parents surprise you. Don't kidnap collie puppies, though :)
I've been internet window shopping for birthday presents today. I have a couple of ideas :)
Remember you told me about the house you'd like to live in. Do you still think about that a lot?
Night Lilly
I hope you enjoyed awesome tv night. Trench Coat Nick :)
Nudge
Remove my wisdom teeth for me?
Please?
I'm a pathetic sight right now. And i've got to go to the hospital for a 'talking session' tomorrow. I sound like i've got marshmallows in my mouth :(
Okay, I'll be Steve Martin & you can be Bill Murray. These film references doing anything for you? :) Sorry, it's the only thing I could think of to make you feel better.
Poor Lilly. I used to wear braces that made my teeth ache. It was no fun at all, and that was only a little bit of pain. I can only imagine how bad sore wisdom teeth must be. Hug. And another one for tomorrow :)
I hate being so far away. You need looking after. I hope the family are being extra nice to you.
It's probably a stupid thing to ask, but is there anything I can do for you?
Thanks petal but i'm okay. Just grouchy. My sister bought me Bonjela and it's helping somewhat. We're watching Wreck-It Ralph to cheer me up. Got to love John C. Reilly and Jack McBrayer voicing the hero of the game! I do love that man and his magnificent face.
Had a nice day? It was super nice here. Hope it was in Lerwick as well.
Ps. Preseeeents. Can i have a clue?
Clues! Hmm, I'm not sure if I should :) But I've decided on a few things and they are all very different.
It was raining today, so I didn't go out. That's my excuse :) I'm glad it was super nice in Blair, though. Could you eat ice cream?
Wreck-It Ralph :) That looks like it's made of happy. I watched Crocodile Dundee II the other day. So many wonderful haircuts.
Night Lilly
I found this group through your last.fm page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEr_3iGfccI
You're my favourite person and don't you forget it.
Ps. Totoro & unicorns :)
Ohhh, Dark Dark Dark are just wonderful. I didn't like their first album when i heard it originally but then decided to give it another try and fell in love. You should listen to their newest album, Who Needs Who. It's just as lovely. Possibly more so.
Pressseenntttss. Presents. Presents. I'm excited and a little nervous. What if your stuff's better than mine?!
I'm a very sleepy girl. How're you doing this fine Summer day?
I'll definitely give Who Needs Who a listen. I like when you recommend stuff :) By the way, I forgot the Mareel films. I haven't even had a look to see what's on. I'm sorry for being so lazy about going to the cinema. I've gone into all non-vital systems shutdown mode these last few days.
It's kinda breezy in Shetland today. I haven't done much. Listened to music while I made pancakes :) I'm thinking Chinese Takeaway & American Dad tonight. Do you like Chinese food?
Also, do you remember a tv show from the 90s about a Mountie and his wolfdog? Due South.
Anyway, I really hope your day went okay and that you're feeling a bit better, Lilliputty. Please don't worry about replying if you're sleepy. Nudge.
Ps. I feel the same way about our presents :)
I've got a Tunnock's Teacake and a cup of tea. Happy girl.
I'm in severe need of some Bonjela afterwards though. Blargh to toothache.
Do you make wondrous pancakes? I'm always instantly jealous when you say you've made some. I realise i could make my own but you know me pretty well by now. Too lazy for pancake making :) Plus i'd want to put ridiculous things in them like bits of Daim bar or a Teacake right in the centre! It wouldn't end well.
Damn you and your Chinese food. There's restaurant in Glasgow that my parents took me and my sisters to when we were younger called, Mings.
http://www.mingsrestaurant.co.uk
We used to get free prawn crackers cause they knew my dad. It was awesome!
They also did the best Crispy Fried Shredded Beef i ever did consume. I get cravings for it at least once a month. In fact, yup, craving it now. Fucksticks.
Ps. Due South! I was obsessed. I was mainly interested in the dog though. Surprised? :)
I do make wondrous pancakes :)
I wanted to make a mini egg pancake today. That was your idea. I bet you have lots of good ideas for pancakes :)
Your dad seems to be very popular :) Isn't there an Italian couple who give him a coffee cake on occasion?
I like Crispy Fried Shredded Beef too. I wish you'd said. I would have bought some tonight to taunt you with :) But I don't think it would be as good as Mings. That place seems really nice.
I forgot you said The Hoff was in the new Hunger Games film. And Hawkeye! I still haven't seen the first one. I did watch The Running Man a couple of days ago. That's kind of the same thing :)
Do you make other things apart from magical cups of tea?
Night Lilliputty.
You're awesome :) Please tell me you say 'fucksticks' in real life.
And as for Diefenbaker, I'm very surprised :)
Ps. That was a lot of music on your blog tonight. I don't know what I'd do without you. Listen to girly music all the time, probably :)
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